SIMON™ Project Management Tool Support and Development

Industry

IT

Customer

Interlign (www.interlign.net)

Project Overview

The goal of the project is to support and enhance a project communication tool (PMT) of our client. The PMT called SIMON™ is a system that documents, addresses and tracks projects. Using SIMON™, it is possible to create projects and tasks, evaluate requests, assign tasks to team members, and track progress from discovery to completion. SIMON™ is a web–based tool that enables users to collaborate on projects and tasks, whether they are sitting across the room or across the nation. More than 10 companies in the United States use the tool to manage their projects.

Project Execution

The IBA activities include:

• Application redesign based on functional requirements (in collaboration with the client)
• Application development
• Unit testing
• Bug fixing
• Creation of new features
• Analysis and improvement of application performance
• Setup and maintenance of test and production servers.

Software Environment and Technologies:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, 2005
• .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0
• MS SQL Server 2000 and MS Reporting services 2000
• ASP .Net, ADO .Net
• Ruby on Rails
• NUnit test driven framework
• NHibernate
• AJAX

Project Results

IBA Group became involved in the project at a very critical stage when the project was behind schedule. In three months, the team accomplished the first goal of putting the first release into production.

Ted Elsas, CEO of Interlign, said: “The team was given a difficult assignment that meant rescuing a project that was behind schedule and that had suffered from inexperienced engineers not being able to deliver the required functionality. To make matters more difficult, our client had no system documentation for us that could be used to speed up the learning curve. Team members have proven themselves to be outstanding engineers and a pleasure to work with. They tackle each and every problem efficiently and effectively and have put the project back on track. IBA provides excellent customer service and the engineers' performance has been exceptional. I look forward to doing more business with IBA.”