Mumbai, India — (press release excerpt) — e-Zest has launched PDE 2000 with Poseidon Technologies. In the traditional project development environment, a wide variety of tools exist for different activities that are carried out during the project life cycle. These tools mostly do not co-exist on the same platform, thereby creating disconnect in various project activities. Recently, there have been attempts to integrate some of these tools. However, such attempts are still in primary stages. Tools do not exist for certain activities that are vital for process maturity throughout the project life cycle, thereby increasing manual effort on them, e.g. proactive tracking of tasks, and warning appropriately. Various issues such as, interface to the Configuration Management (CM) tools, are mostly ignored by the current family of tools.

Here is a complete solution, which addresses these issues to a large extent. The Project Development Environment (PDE-000) is an environment that not only provides an extremely user friendly front-end, but also a very powerful back-end that performs a wide variety of functionality for the user. The concept of security that is introduced in this tool ensures appropriate data encapsulation for different users. Rich set of filters provides detailed analysis of the various project activities. Also introduced is the concept of planning and tracking the process maturity throughout the duration of the project, with the infrastructure that embeds the SEI-CMM recommendations with the project activities. The tool provides an extensive set of offerings on various activities like task scheduling, resource scheduling and leveling, various mechanisms for tracking the project progress. In addition to all these, the test process, review process, defect tracking, effective help to the user in terms of personal software process (PSP), and a lot of features that are provided by the usual contemporary tools in each of the areas also become integral part of the tool. The PDE-2000 interfaces with a variety of CM tools, and databases that exist. And guess what! All these features are completely configurable to suite the user needs

 
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