Process governance

Define and enact engineering processes to optimize your teams’ work, reduce mistakes and ensure compliance

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Successfully scale agile across the enterprise

With ELM’s process governance solution, you can drive digital transformation and compliance by documenting your process using custom guidance or reusing guidance from frameworks and industry standards, execute using the right tools to enact the documented process and finally govern to prove your success using the right reports ensure compliance using a single source of truth.

Read the solution brief
Adopt best practices

Find best practices and guidance on different aspects of agile development, systems engineering, software development, governance, and industry specific compliance.

Document process

Choose over 100 customizable process plug-ins and practices or create your own process for your organization, line of business, project or team.

Gain actionable insights

Visualize engineering data and program-wide status for actionable insights and predictable delivery outcomes.

Drive compliance

Demonstrate consistency, completeness, and correctness to show compliance to organizational process and industry standards.

Features

Example of test analysis dashboard
Library of best practices

Orchestrate delivery across hybrid teams with varying operating speeds under an umbrella organizational process to synchronize the overall release cadence while allowing each team the flexibility to build at their own pace despite preferences in processes at the team level.

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Document and publish content

Process libraries can be authored from scratch or tailored to create custom processes for specific organizational needs collaboratively using a rich or web-based client for process easy and simplified process authoring.

Example of a contextual decision view in automotive
Streamlined agile development

Plan and manage work to reduce time to market, minimize bottlenecks, and accelerate the flow of work. Use Scrum boards, and Kanban boards to plan and visualize work across multiple planning horizons.

Example of a predictive maintenance dashboard
Scale agile across the enterprise

Adopt SAFe to scale agile, boost collaboration, align strategy with OKRs, prioritize work using WSJF, and track progress via roadmaps for faster enterprise agility and continuous improvement.

Example of a remote monitoring dashboard
Establish a way of working

Orchestrate delivery across hybrid teams with varying operating speeds under an umbrella organizational process to synchronize the overall release cadence while allowing each team the flexibility to build at their own pace despite preferences in processes at the team level.

Example of test analysis dashboard
Library of best practices

Orchestrate delivery across hybrid teams with varying operating speeds under an umbrella organizational process to synchronize the overall release cadence while allowing each team the flexibility to build at their own pace despite preferences in processes at the team level.

Data approach diagram
Document and publish content

Process libraries can be authored from scratch or tailored to create custom processes for specific organizational needs collaboratively using a rich or web-based client for process easy and simplified process authoring.

Example of a contextual decision view in automotive
Streamlined agile development

Plan and manage work to reduce time to market, minimize bottlenecks, and accelerate the flow of work. Use Scrum boards, and Kanban boards to plan and visualize work across multiple planning horizons.

Example of a predictive maintenance dashboard
Scale agile across the enterprise

Adopt SAFe to scale agile, boost collaboration, align strategy with OKRs, prioritize work using WSJF, and track progress via roadmaps for faster enterprise agility and continuous improvement.

Example of a remote monitoring dashboard
Establish a way of working

Orchestrate delivery across hybrid teams with varying operating speeds under an umbrella organizational process to synchronize the overall release cadence while allowing each team the flexibility to build at their own pace despite preferences in processes at the team level.

Options

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) provides robust, cross-domain support for adopting agile@scale to help organizations transform into lean enterprises. ELM templates and reports support adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to facilitate planning and managing work to reduce time to market, minimize bottlenecks, and accelerate the flow of work across the value stream for continuous value delivery.

IBM ELM Method Composer

Document the process with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Method Composer, a flexible process management platform with a method authoring tool and process asset library to help you implement measured improvement of your enterprise, systems engineering or software delivery processes.

 

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Learn more about how IBM ELM process governance can help you scale agile across the enterprise.

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