Customisable artifacts for better Project Management

Proceve supports many types of Project Artifacts or Work Items.

  • Documents
  • Objectives/Goals
  • Results
  • Requirements
    • Feature Requests
    • Roadmap Items
  • Tasks
    • Projects
      • Tracking Project
    • Todo Item
    • Milestones
    • Common Time Tracking Item
  • Tests
    • Test Plan
    • Test Run
    • Test Result
    • Test Step
    • Test Script
  • Issues

Proceve’s software provides many tools to allow you to organize the various artifacts within your Project, Program or Work in a number of ways.  These mechanisms were designed to allow you to manage and organize everything, even in the largest projects and/or programs where you might have millions of individual artifacts.  These mechanisms include:

  • Hierarchies
  • Categories
  • Groups
  • Tags

To learn more about Organizing Artifacts

Describe Artifacts In Detail

Artifacts can be described in detail, including a Name, Short Summary and a rich Description using our unique Block editor which allows multiple people to work on the same item simultaneously, as well as synchronizing content with other artifacts in real-time. 

Tired of having your requirements documents out of sync with the task descriptions or other artifacts in your project management system?  Proceve’s unique data architecture allows you to write a document and then embed select parts of it into other artifacts. If/when that description is updated anywhere (e.g. in a document, the task artifact, a requirement artifact, etc) it is simultaneously updated everywhere.

Moreover, if another user is editing that text, it is locked and you can see that someone is working on it, in real-time.  Once they are done, your copy will be updated immediately to reflect their changes, allowing for dramatically improved collaboration. 

To learn more about how we allow you to edit and synchronize content across all of your Documents and Artifacts 

Define Custom Workflows and Manage Artifacts Through Them

We recognize that every Company and Project may have a different way of doing things, so we give you the ability to define as many Workflows as you need for each of the Project types you might undertake.

Define unlimited Workflows in seconds using our easy-to-use Drag and Drop interface.

You may define Workflows, Globally for use across your firm in a consistent manner, or customize them for every project.

Define different Workflows for different types of projects.  For example, a Marketing Campaign is not likely to use the same Workflow as a Software Development Project. 

Assign the appropriate Workflow to each Project to meet your specific needs.

To learn more about Workflows, Stages and Statuses 

Plan, estimate, schedule and manage dependencies

Proceve allows you to plan all of your work in almost any way you might need.

  • Assign Artifacts to Individuals
  • Assign Artifacts to Teams
  • Assign Artifacts to Sprints
  • Set Deadlines
  • Assign Criticality to Artifacts
  • Assign Priorities to Artifacts

We even let you assign Artifacts to Charge Codes if that is something your company needs for internal cross-charging or external billing.

Assign Estimates To All Your Artifacts

Proceve provides the most robust estimation framework currently available for Project/Program management.

Estimate using:

  • Story Points
  • T-Shirt Sizes
  • Complexity
  • Person Hours

Assign confidence levels to your estimates.

Define the resource types, skills, their associated costs and more, that are needed to perform the work. 

Estimate effort for child or sub-artifacts and then aggregate it up to a parent item so that you can estimate on either the high or the detailed level but still see the overall picture.

Scheduling Your Work

Go beyond Planning with tools to provide detailed scheduling for all of your Artifacts and Work Items.

Proceve’s scheduling capabilities allow you to not only assign items to sprints but also to set things such as:

  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Duration

Duration is calculated based on the estimates you provide.

We also keep track of the original target End Date so that any slippage can be identified and quantified.

Proceve goes a step further and also tracks these additional items:

  • Actual Start Date
  • Actual End Date
  • Actual Duration

As well as things such as Percentage Complete.

Manage Dependencies

Lets face it, when doing any kind of project there are always some things that have to be done before others can be.

Managing these Dependencies is absolutely critical when managing a Project or Program, or even your personal day-to-day Todo items.

Fully Automated Time Tracking

Sometimes it’s necessary to keep track of Work Items or Artifacts separately from the Project or Program that they reside in.

Proceve allows you to associate any Work Item or Artifact with as many Tracking Projects as you need.

Examples:

  • Track Work Items needed for a Product Rease separately from the overall Product Development Project
  • Track Items which are Associated with a Tax Filing Requirement (SR&ED and other R&D tax credits for example) 

Threaded Conversations

Instead of just allowing Comments on Artifacts, Proceve leverages our Collaboration tools to support fully Threaded Conversations on every Work Item, which can be accessed from the Chat Tab, within the Details Panel.

Attachment Management

Whether you dropped an Image into the Editor, or Attached a PDF to an Artifact, you can see and manage all of your Files and Attachments from within the Attachments Tab.

Fully Automated Time Tracking

Accurately tracking time spent on various Work Items is critical for successful resource management.

Automatically track time at the touch of a button.

See all Time Tracking records in the Time Tab as well as Create and Manage manual Time Entries. 

Version History

No matter how many changes you make to your Work Items or Artifacts, we have a complete copy of every past version.

Access a complete Audit Trail of past versions in the History Tab.

Complete Traceability

The inability to effectively Manage Change is the single largest reason for Project failure.

Proceve provides the most complete mechanisms for Managing Change, including robust Traceability.

Access every related Work Item or Artifact in order to know what will be affected by a change, in the Traceability Tab.