Take Control of Your Projects with IBM Engineering Workflow Management

Focus on what matters most by linking your plans directly with development and execution. Ensure your team is always working on the right tasks, minimizing wasted effort and maximizing impact.

Break down silos with seamless task linking. Unlike disjointed tools with fragile integrations, EWM connects your teams and workflows, enabling faster identification, resolution, and testing of tasks.

No matter where your team is located, EWM enhances collaboration and coordination, driving productivity across geographies and time zones.

Stay informed with automated cross-project reporting. Get a single, unified view of your project’s progress and activities, eliminating the hassle of manual tracking and fragmented updates.

Leverage the power of the cloud to set up and start using EWM quickly. Focus on delivering innovative solutions instead of spending time on complex tool configurations.

Strike the perfect balance between speed, quality, and cost. Use EWM to find defects faster, gather timely feedback, and re-prioritize features dynamically. Reduce risks while improving overall product quality.

Dashboards and reports are powerful tools for monitoring the health of your project and staying connected with your team. Serving as a central hub, dashboards provide a streamlined view of essential information, including iteration plans, builds, trend reports, work item queries, event logs, and activity feeds. They also give quick access to team updates, links, announcements, and recent activities, making them an invaluable resource for project and team management.

With their intuitive browser-based interface, dashboards are easy to use and require no special setup, offering a low barrier to entry for keeping everyone informed. The Web Dashboards and Team Reports features in Engineering Workflow Management take this a step further, enabling both real-time analytics and historical trend tracking across builds, streams, work items, and other project artifacts.

Automated reporting enhances this functionality by providing instant insights through customizable or pre-configured reports. Project managers can tailor reports to meet specific needs or choose from hundreds of ready-made options to track progress and performance effectively. These tools ensure you stay on top of your projects while maintaining alignment and focus across your team.

2.) Reports interface showcase

The Planning component of Engineering Workflow Management provides robust tools to support both agile and traditional project management. For agile teams, it offers features for creating product, release, and sprint backlogs, enabling efficient sprint planning and progress tracking during iterations. Individual developer plans and workload balancing tools ensure optimal resource allocation throughout the project.

For traditional projects, the platform includes support for schedule dependencies, constraints, and a Gantt chart editor, allowing teams to build comprehensive project plans. These tools make it easy to manage timelines, track progress, and adjust plans as needed.

No matter the methodology—Agile, SAFe®, or a custom approach— IBM Engineering Workflow Management simplifies sprint and project planning with automated tracking of individual work items. Plans are accessible to all team members and can adapt dynamically to reflect the team's current status and direction, helping you keep teams organized and projects on track seamlessly.

4.) Plan interface showcase

The Source Control Management component of Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is a robust, component-based version control system designed to support geographically distributed teams and facilitate both parallel and agile development. Built on the Jazz platform, it enables a highly integrated collaborative development environment by seamlessly integrating with defect tracking, builds, and process-centric automation. The Source Control Management component of Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is designed with flexibility in mind, accommodating various programming practices such as component-driven or feature-driven development. Teams can efficiently manage and track source code, documents, and other artifacts using advanced distributed source control capabilities. Collaboration is streamlined through controlled artifact sharing, automatic change tracking, and maintaining detailed modification histories. Additionally, the system supports simultaneous development on multiple versions, enabling parallel workstreams and boosting team productivity across projects.

For traditional projects, the platform includes support for schedule dependencies, constraints, and a Gantt chart editor, allowing teams to build comprehensive project plans. These tools make it easy to manage timelines, track progress, and adjust plans as needed.

No matter the methodology—Agile, SAFe®, or a custom approach— IBM Engineering Workflow Management simplifies sprint and project planning with automated tracking of individual work items. Plans are accessible to all team members and can adapt dynamically to reflect the team's current status and direction, helping you keep teams organized and projects on track seamlessly.

6.) Production hierarchy showcase

The Build Management component of Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) integrates the team’s build system, providing build awareness, control, and traceability throughout the development process. This integration enables team members to track build progress, view build alerts and results, request builds, and trace builds to other artifacts such as change sets and work items.

Key features include:

• Build Awareness: Real-time visibility into builds.
• Support for Existing Build Infrastructure: Seamless integration with tools like Jenkins and Rational Build Forge.
• Traceability: Link builds to artifacts, ensuring transparency across the development lifecycle.
• Scheduled and Personal Builds: Manage automated builds or run personal builds for testing.
• Rich Build Results: Detailed insights into build outcomes.
• Build Reproducibility: Ensure consistent builds with artifact tracking.
• Build Health Reports: Monitor trends and identify issues early.
• Notifications: Email alerts for build status and results.

Additionally, the system includes tools such as the Build Toolkit, integration with Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, and a web client for accessibility.

By automating and monitoring project builds, this system simplifies the management of build definitions, engines, and results. It maintains traceability to work items and changesets, helping project managers identify what went into specific builds, reduce complexity, and ensure high build quality across diverse technologies and teams.

8.) Build overview summary

Engineering Workflow Management provides powerful tools to help teams collaborate and manage projects efficiently, offering a comprehensive view of ongoing activities and progress. With customizable portal views, team members can access updates on news, events, build statuses, work progress, and requested changes, all in one centralized location. This fosters collaboration, transparency, and better connectivity by allowing team members to see what others are working on and view their availability.

Integrated Project Area and Team Area Templates

Project and process templates simplify the creation of new project areas by offering predefined configurations. These "out of the box" templates support a variety of project and workflow needs, and teams can also create custom templates for future use.

Key Features and Best Practices:

• Predefined Configurations: Ready-to-use templates include defined types, attributes, default queries, plans, and other configurations to match different project requirements.
• Custom Templates: Teams can build custom project areas, export them as templates, and reuse them to ensure consistency across projects.
• Parent-Child Project Areas: Decide whether to create a fully configured standalone project area or a child project area that inherits behaviors from a main project area, based on your design needs.
• Artifact Integrity: Care must be taken when exporting templates to ensure that artifacts do not reference IDs or attributes specific to the original project area. For example, generic queries can transfer without issue, but those referencing specific attribute values may fail if they rely on unavailable IDs in the new project area.

By integrating customizable views and robust project templates, Engineering Workflow Management streamlines project setup and management, enabling teams to stay connected, organized, and productive while maintaining flexibility for diverse project needs.

10.) Team management hierarchy showcase

To accommodate different roles and responsibilities, IBM EWM provides three license editions: Developer, Contributor, and Stakeholder. Below is a breakdown of the features included in each license.

11.) Pricing options for EWM on Softacus

IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is more than just a project management tool—it's a comprehensive solution designed to streamline your workflows, enhance collaboration, and deliver high-quality products faster. From robust dashboards and reporting to agile and traditional planning, source control, build management, and team process optimization, EWM equips you with the tools to handle every aspect of your project efficiently.

With customizable templates, seamless integrations, and support for both distributed and on-premises teams, EWM adapts to your unique needs, making it the perfect choice for teams of all sizes and methodologies. Whether you're managing sprints, tracking builds, or overseeing complex dependencies, EWM provides the visibility, control, and flexibility required for success.

Don't settle for fragmented tools or outdated processes. Take control of your projects and lead your team to greater productivity and innovation.

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