TARGET PLUS™ Method Approach

 

Proxcy Project TARGET PLUS® Method is Proxcy Method’s standard approach to project management for information technology projects. The goal of TARGET PLUS® is to provide a framework in which all types of information technology (IT) projects can be planned, estimated, controlled, and completed in a consistent manner.

 

This consistency is necessary in an environment where projects use a variety of methods, tools, and approaches to satisfy business needs. IT projects are characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Information technology is an evolving engineering discipline, which uses rapidly changing tools and techniques.

 

TARGET PLUS® addresses the unique management demands of IT projects. It focuses on the additional discipline needed to ensure that expectations are clearly defined at the outset of the project and remain visible throughout the project life cycle. TARGET PLUS® also formalizes control mechanisms to help the project team share critical project information and coordinate with external stakeholders.TARGET PLUS® is designed to support a variety of types of project work. Although it has been developed for moderate to large-scale projects, TARGET PLUS® is also applicable to smaller efforts as well. The TARGET PLUS® approach can be tailored to project work performed by teams, work packages, sub-projects, pilots, and even programs.

 

The overall organization of TARGET PLUS® is expressed as a process-based methodology, which can be tailored to a project’s specific needs. A process is a cohesive set or thread of related tasks that meet a particular project objective. A process results in one or more key deliverables and outputs. Each process is also a discipline that involves the use of similar skills.

 

The five management processes are:

1. Control and Reporting

2. Work Management

3. Resource Management

4. Quality Management

5. Configuration Management

 

As a client of Proxcy, you can expect a typical implementation to encompass the following processes:

• Business requirements analysis - Determine and scoping the business needs and functional requirements

• Design and specification - documenting the detailed technical design

• Build - Building the approved technical design Function Testing - testing the developed solution Business Systems

• Testing - Formal integrated business solution test

• Education & Training - Skills transfer of new functionality

• Production Migration -Implementation of the change and post production support