Process Your Life

On July 9th, the the first customer-internal Stages User Forum took place at Continental. It was organized by Cristina Romcea (thanks a lot!).  In the first track, three different business units presented their current solutions for managing their engineering processes. Both, their process modeling and process enactment was impressive.  All three units headed for Automotive SPICE level 3 and continuously prove that by a large number of assessments.

In the second track, the corporate process architecture was presented. The discussions showed, that it is not easy to bridge the gap between an abstract product lifecycle process and engineering processes that can directly be used in development projects. The key idea is to model processes in different abstraction layers and map the interfacing components onto each other. With its unique compliance mapping features, Stages should be ready for doing that.

Tool integration is key in all process management projects. Therefore, solutions for integrating process and project management (Stages interfaces seamlessly with MS Project Enterprise Server), process and document management (Stages interface to MS Sharepoint) and metrics collection across the toolchain (Stages Reporting Engine) were presented in the third track.

At the end all participants agreed, that the User Forum was a very good platform for presenting and sharing ideas around all topics of process management. The User Forum will definitely be repeated next year.

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