The governance style you adopt really depends on your organization’s culture. Governance can range from being a mentor where you suggest and recommend, to governor where you require and audit. Most organization’s governance model falls somewhere pretty much in the middle where process and procedures are defined, participation is expected and outlier non-compliance is rectified.
Ascendive provides the framework you want to enable the governance model that suits your organization’s culture. Our platform is a repository for your best-in-class content, a workflow framework for your defined processes and a reporting engine for monitoring compliance.
The platform also enables you to define content visibility by role, approval methods, version control, security levels, languages available (over 100 to choose from), and numerous other aspects for project governance.
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Deploy Workflows
What is it: CCP comes with an industry leading Workflow engine covering 120 user driven events and logical paths. Link these events together to create your best-in-class implementation and development processes. This ensures compliance with your standard processes and implementation methodology. Why do I need it: Define your processes and then execute, manage and monitor team participation. Enables your PMO to define and provide consistant project execution. |
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Version Control
What is it: Every single piece of content in CCP is under version control. Who, what and when is tracked for every piece of content change. With appropriate security, content can be rolled back to a prior version. All versions are available to view and compare. Why do I need it: Keeping data in a spreadsheet provides no access to who changed what cell when, creating possible untraceable calamity. CCP removes this risk. |
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Risk Mitigation
What is it: All projects have risks and in CCP not only can you identify, monitor and mitigate these Riske, but CCP alerts you when you need to review the Risk. Why do I need it: Stay on top of project Risks through pro-active risk reviews and mitigation. Get automatic Alerts when Risks are being ignored. |
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Traceability
What is it: CCP provides both forward and backwards traceability, from initial question to workshop to process definition to requirement discovery to business justification to approval to specification document to development process (Agile or Waterfall) to system testing to error incidents to production and more. Why do I need it: Every document, idea, approval and reasoning is never more than 3-4 clicks away. Fast, easy and accurate traceability eliminates misunderstandings and provides accountability for all team participants. |
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Toll Gates
What is it: Define project stages, set review Toll Gates and determine what content needs to be reviewed and approved to approve a Toll Gate. Why do I need it: Apply best in class PMO monitoring on projects to ensure consistent delivery and reduce risks. |
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Content Security and CCP Permissions
What is it: CCP Security allows for unlimited security groups where each group has over 30 permission settings. You can then assign users to one or more groups. For example, assign a client user to a group that allows them to view and update a Business Requirement from the SOW, but not allow them to add a new Business Requirement. Why do I need it: Enables extensible, easily customizable and granular security of CCP Content. For example, only members of the PMO Group can view Financial Management data. |
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