Advantages of EPAM Project Management Center 

EPAM PMC was developed with each project team member's and involved parties' needs in mind. The EPAM PMC main advantages include:

High-level Executives:

• Increased visibility across the enterprise with a number of projects underway;
• Ability to quickly evaluate overall project status and recognize at the earliest possible stage required actions to keep a project on time and within budget;
• Consolidated and secure storage of all project-related information, news, decisions, data on milestones and deliverables for current and completed projects;
• Optimized planning and utilization of enterprise resources.

Project managers:

• Excellent high-level vision of the project development status across the entire project lifecycle;
• Accurate firsthand information despite the geographical distribution of the development team;
• Ability to demonstrate the project progress to the client;
• Increased human resource management capabilities;
• Ability to identify risks and bring up issues;
• Comprehensive analysis of the time spent on project activities and tasks by each team member;
• Easy planning of the project budget with the help of the Accounting module.

Business analysts:

• Centralized requirements repository;
• Sophisticated tools to submit, assign, track and manage the requirements online;
• Ability to update any requirement and ensure that all members use its latest version;
• Ability to ensure that the requirement has passed all the necessary stages before it is verified.

Development teams:

• Opportunity to view up-to-date project requirements, decisions and news irrespective of the team member's actual location;
• Opportunity to access a centralized document storage and study relevant project documents;
• Opportunity to be notified of project changes and tasks assigned to the developer and to see overdue tasks;
• Ability to share real-time data on builds, bugs and other project items with co-workers;
• Outstanding build and release management;
• Easy and comprehensive bug tracking;
• Industry proven workflow for bug fixing;
• Fast time reporting with user-focused Time Journal interface.

QA Teams:

• Opportunity to view up-to-date project requirements, decisions and news irrespective of the team member's actual location;
• Opportunity to access a centralized document storage and study relevant project documents;
• Opportunity to be notified of project changes and tasks assigned to the team member, see overdue tasks;
• Improved and manageable process of software testing;
• Easy and comprehensive bug tracking;
• Ability to create test scenarios, detailed test cases, run them step-by-step and track the test results;
• Fast time reporting with user-focused Time Journal interface.

Tech Support Teams:

• Consolidated storage of all support requests;
• Easy support requests tracking, assignment and management;
• FAQs module in each project for improved customer service;
• Workflow documents and schemes for novice technical support members.

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Contractor's Company:

• Improved visibility across the company and multiple projects;
• Opportunity to bridge geographically distributed development teams;
• Improved communication across the enterprise;
• Critical integration of development and client teams;
• Enhanced customer satisfaction;
• Outstanding savings on time;
• Elimination of data loss;
• Consolidated project experience data;
• Lower administration costs.

Customer's Company:

• Access to the project workplace makes the progress visible and manageable;
• Opportunity to edit project requirements and require changes online;
• Ability to view and read all the documents related to the project;
• Ability to examine the time spent by the project team on different project-related activities;
• Ability to get email notifications on purchase orders related to the project;
• Enhanced interaction with the contractor's team;
• Cost savings.