EssWork

EssWork provides everything you need to begin practice-based software development—helping you maximize business benefits while limiting risk. Browse, compose, build and customize discrete practices into a process that suits your needs. EssWork is not a development process or method, it is a tool for combining multiple practices into a cohesive, flexible, and effective way of working. With EssWork’s enhanced practice framework, you can add agility to all aspects of your projects. Fine-tune the level of formality you require in everything from work products to delivery mechanisms to team collaboration. To help you work efficiently EssWork provides information on what activities to perform and what things to produce. It comes with a number of templates and techniques to help make this happen.

The EssWork environment

EssWork includes:

• A platform for practice-oriented software development that matches your way of working and sets the foundation for further improvement
• A predefined set of practices from which you can choose to extend, compose and build on
• Agile, context-sensitive, dynamic process guidance through cards
• Identification of activities you need to perform to meet your goals
• Guidance that can be imported into a project tracking tool for greater control