| At present, the software develop process is not impeccable in most of software company especially in medium-sized and small software companies. Many projects rely on the experience from project managers, and there are no thorough processes and documents. There are many issues such as lacking promptly and effective communication, undefined and cleared requirements, disordered process, low performance teams and missing important documents in the project. All these issues have bad influence on the project quality and customers’satisfaction, and they make that enterprises have weak competition, the projects are not reusable, the knowledge database can not be created efficiently and the projects schedule can not be ensured. Therefore, it is important to have an entire and effective software development process method. IBM Seven Keys to Success is a framework based on development process of IBM projects. It can ensure staying health status for each stage of the project through IBM Seven Keys to Success, and then it ensure that the project lead to final success. Both IBM projects and other projects can use IBM Seven Keys to Success as its based framework in their software projects.First of all, it is introduced that the present situation and the questions for nowadays software projects and talks about the essentials of using IBM Seven Keys to Success to help these software projects to fix the issues. And then, recommends each key of IBM Seven Keys to Success and the meaning of health status. Then, based on the software development phases of Information Development Customization Management System project discusses how to monitor and manage different keys in each project phase. Among them, the key point is how to apply IBM Seven Keys to Success in each phase of Information Development Customization Management System project such as qualifying phase, defining and planing phase, starting phase, executing and controlling phase and closing phase. Finally, IBM Seven Keys to Success is summarized. |
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