Do you want to carry out IT or communication technology (ITK) projects in accordance with the Swiss project management method HERMES and facilitate standard-compliant project planning and distributed execution of your projects?
in-STEP BLUE HERMES Edition allows for goal oriented, simple and fast planning and execution of your projects. Fully transparent and traceable.
Run HERMES with in-STEP BLUE
Look below for a list of in-STEP BLUE features supporting HERMES:
| Central, multi-user capable project data base | • Secure and efficient project work on a LAN and on the Internet • Time saving thanks to minimal communication and coordination requirements • System-wide full-text search in documents and source code |
| Configuration management | • Secure version management of all documents • Revision-capable project results • Traceable project course • Seamless project history |
| Structured templates for all HERMES management products | • Project start without prolonged set-up • High productivity • Short project run time • Guaranteed HERMES compliant documentation |
| Structured templates for multiple project results | • Project start without prolonged planning phase • Higher productivity • Short project run-time |
| Product wizard | • Convenient creation of HERMES compliant products |
| Specialist products presented as directories | • Simple assignment of all accumulated documents to the specialist product they belong to |
| Project planning wizard | • Simple, HERMES compliant structuring of projects • Short planning times and minimal effort • Automatically generated initial project plan • Automatically generated initial versions of all required management products |
| Work package planning wizard | • Simple planning of Work packages with assignments to specialist products to be created and the employee responsible for implementation |
| Quantitative project management | • Straight forward schedule, workload, cost and user productivity planning • Up-to-date project evaluations at the click of a mouse |
| Integrated requirements and change management | • Fast and standardized form-based requirements creation • Traceability, from commission of requirements down to acceptance • Requirements oriented systems through intensive requirements controlling • Import wizard for taking on requirements from MS Excel • Impact analysis |
| Graphic requirements definition with UML and BPMN | • Simple, graphic modeling of UML and BPMN diagrams according to requirements definition • Derive requirements directly from graphic requirements models • Traceability of requirements definition through persistent and navigable relationships between diagram elements and requirements • Requirements specifications and other documents with up to date models at the push of a button • Securely versioned requirements models |
| Integrated issue and risk management | • Simple, unified creation • Overview of project risks, including their properties and states • High project security |
| Multi-Project Management | • Transparent project environment with all a company’s organizational units • Up to date overview of the project portfolio • Simple coordination of goals, schedules, resources and costs in parallel running projects • Simple controlling and reporting thanks to numerous project lists with key indicators, reports and individual evaluations • Direct access to multi-project resource planning • Parallel access to several projects • Simplified organization of individual tasks thanks to cross-project ToDo lists |
| Integrated time recording | • Real-time workload and cost controls |
| Traceable project activity, task and result states | • Transparency of project events • Option for the project manager to operate in real-time |
| User specific ToDo lists and configurable data and project views | • Fast orientation for all users in running project • Simple inclusion of new users |
| Integration with MS Word and MS Excel | • Direct and fast editing of management and specialist products |
| Process standard | • Project Type System Adaptation 2005, Project Type System Development 2003 HERMES 5 and 5.1 |
| Customization | • Easily customizable and adaptable |
““I have come to know microTOOL not only as a company whose software solutions make the implementation of HERMES in projects easy but also one that provides optimal support. I think it’s great that microTOOL supports the HERMES User Group on a regular basis.”
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