Agile methods are increasingly popular of late due to flexibility of iterative development with changes, but there is a strong cost rationale for traditional work specialization and planned based approaches to project management. One need not necessarily make a choice among these seemingly different options. Hybrid methods work with both, leveraging the best of both and unleash is a step in that direction. The salient features of the product include 1) CMMI level 3, 4 and 5 compliance. 2) Early warning capability in-built. Systems are designed to provide early capability warning even before things get in wrong direction. 3) Follows complete project life cycle approach (SDLC) with executive controls. 4) Ability to create and re-use project templates for efficient projects execution. 5) Ability to customize and integrate with any existing ERP systems. 6) Features of TOC and critical chain approach are integrated.

2. About “Unleash” Team
 “Unleash” Team is based out of Hyderabad and was
incorporated in 2009 as a part of “Nucleus Group”.
 The team consists of a blend of expert project managers and
technical specialists with a unique mix of management
consulting skills and technical knowledge.
 With our immense experience in the Project Management
consulting and usage of various project management systems
available in market, we have developed our own Project
Management tool “Unleash” which is provided “On Cloud”.

3. About “Unleash” Team
 Unleash Team works out of two offices in Hyderabad based out
of Ameerpet (Admin) and Miyapur (Development).
 Core expertise lies in web programming technologies
(php, mySQL, jquery, ajax etc) in addition to project management
and operations re-engineering consulting & training.

4. About “Unleash” Team
 Our core strength lies in providing a complete package of
management consulting, management applications development
and training (a key component of change management) in the
arena of project management.

5. About “Unleash” Team
 All our consultants come with many years of management
systems experience across a wide variety of industries and are
adept with various ERP and management systems to make
integrating our products into your existing management ERP
systems easy.
 Additional benefit is that most of our consultants have worked in
very similar roles in various organizations and understand the
multi-faceted nature of the work involved.

6. Project Management
 Project is temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end
 Project Management is a discipline of planning, organizing and
managing resources like time, money, people and scope to
achieve specific business goals and objectives.
 No matter what type of project one is involved with, project
management typically follows the same sequence:
Definition Planning Execution Control Closure
A large project is done in multiple phases (Life cycle technique)

7. Applying Project Management
 Project management is applicable in each & every industry on
the planet which does project or companies which takes up
projects for achieving their business goals.
 To name a few industry domains:
 Aerospace / Defense/ Manufacturing/ Engineering
 IT / ITES / BPO
 FMCG/ Retail
 Energy / Oil / Gas / Petroleum/ Construction
 Anything under the sun and beyond also eg. NASA sending a probe to mars for
exploration of life conditions.

8. Project Management Software
 Project Management Software helps in various activities of a Project like
planning, scheduling, resource allocation, communication, execution etc.
 Important Tasks of a Project Management Software include:
 Scheduling, like:
 Tasks
 Meetings
 Resources etc
 Providing various Information like:
 Tasks of people
 Warning about all sort of risks
 Overview information of different activities, resources etc

9. Project Management Software
Popular project management software include tools like:
• Microsoft Project (MSP)
• Primavera
• Basecamp
• Version one
• Agilezen
And many more tools (Literally in thousands)

10. Project Management on Cloud
An average citizen has got some banking requirement. He got two options:
1. A regular old styled bank where you need to stand in the queue to deposit/
withdraw your own money – Takes 4 hrs
2. The same service on Internet Banking- Takes just 5 min
• Present day competitive world, no one has such a time to waste.
• In real time business environment also, everyone would like to be flexible,
would like to have information at the right time at any place so that they can
make most of their time and resources.
• Cloud provides that flexibility and instant information but at much much
cheaper costs any where, because there is no requirement to maintain a
separate computers or servers and people to manage them.

11. Project Management on Cloud
 Cloud computing is delivery of computing as a service rather than product.
 Cloud computing is a marketing term for technologies that provide
 Computation
 Software application
 Data Access
 Storage Services etc
 Service is provided as per usage over internet on any device with internet
access. Highly attractive in times of limited budgets and distributed teams.
 Delivers applications through internet;
 All that Users require is just a browser and a computer/laptop/mobile.

13. Project Management on Cloud
 Provide instant communication between globally dispersed teams and
be able to seamlessly access better versions of software as they are
released.
 Lead to greater economies of scale with out investing in backend
expenditure
 No need to maintain servers
 No expertise required
 Pay based on usage and only for actual usage of software
 Pay for what you use; unlike in desktop software where you have to pay no
matter how much is your usage. Mobile Billing changed from per minute
based to per second based.

14. Continued …
 Fosters Innovation
 As your project management is done more easily you have lots of
time to focus on business objectives
 Spend more time in generating new ideas and efficiencies
 Large enterprises can reduce their management cost (As
unleash can act as your assistant to help the senior
management focus on trouble spots regarding projects).
 Facilitates global and interactive learning at affordable price

15. How are we different?
• While many of the contemporary software work online or on a cloud (using
services like MS Sharepoint, virtualization etc), they are inherently desktop
based software and are not designed to be cloud centric. Data migration
processes etc are also very cumbersome as source code is simply not
available for them (and no hope as well).
• Our tools (Unleash) have been designed completely from a cloud centric
point of view and offer superior performance and flexibility for customization
(What would take several months to customize utilizing various tools would
be possible in weeks with our systems due to the inherent simplicity and
complete focus on cloud based delivery).

16. Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile
 Waterfall is a Project Management methodology
which is more focused on building and following
process
 Focus is on effective following of the defined processes
 Agile is a Project Management methodology
which is highly flexible, fast and caters to
changes in competitive environment.
 Focus is on how one can adapt to the changing requirements

17. Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile
 Waterfall is a very popular software development
technique adopted in many organizations. Due to
increasing volatility in markets regarding requirements and
changes, many organizations have started moving towards
adoption of Agile practices.
 Current state is that many organizations today practice
waterfall systems and Agile methodologies and a blend of
both as well (In same project). In addition, many
organizations adhere to various CMM practices.

18. Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile
 Many organizations have project management systems in
place already (PMIS) as a part of PMO. However, still
many projects (75% of all projects) incur a cost escalation
of 179% over initial budget (Standish Group).
 The traditional ERP systems are not able to deal with the
simultaneous existence of multiple project management
methodologies at the same time (some times within the
same project).

19. Our solution: Unleash
 Unleash Software is an easy to use On-Cloud Project
Management Software.
 Unleash is a unique cloud based systems where you will find
tools to manage projects of both WATERFALL and AGILE or
any Hybrid in between.
 Almost all companies use project management, which makes
Unleash a valuable software for almost all companies.

20. Why Unleash
 Affordable Price
 On Cloud/On Demand
-Less infrastructure Cost
-Log in and get to work: All you need is a browser.
 Flexibility of Usage in PM Systems- Waterfall or Agile or Both
 Real time Notifications at Right time
 Integrated module for SMS and Email (Based on control systems
defined) to help pro-actively manage your projects even before they
become trouble spots.

21. Why Unleash
 Customization
 Software to be installed on customer location and servers
 On customer demand with very reasonable T&M contracts
 Continuous Collaboration
 On Demand
 In built chat system
 Constant Upgrades
 We update our software once a month with new features constantly added
 Technical Support-On Site & Off Site
 A dedicated development team size of 40 members as of Dec 2011.
 Discounts on Consulting Services in Project Management for your employees
 Easy to use

22. Unleash for Large IT Organizations
 Unleash is a completely customizable source code and can
integrate very well with any other ERP software like SAP or other
work flow systems already in place for your project and follows
the PMI standards and compatible with Mahindra Satyam’s
internal Project Management practices.
 The experience of our management team with various projects
delivery and the challenges are addressed in our tool and helps
you to manage delivery of a variety of Project Management
Approaches and is available to you at a source code level with
customization possible on a T&M basis.

23. Competitor Fact Sheet
Feature Name Unleash MSP 2010 Primavera
Affordability Starts at 20,000 Starts from Starts form
(Unlimited) 2,00,000 (8 Users) 4,00,000 (8
Users)
Instant Notifications Yes No No
On Cloud Yes No No
Flexibility of Usage in Yes No No
Existing PMIS
Discounts on Yes No No
Consulting Services
On site Technical Yes No No
Support
Industries Preferred Every Industry IT Industry Construction

24. Existing Users (Brand “Unleash”)

25. References
Unleash, an Active Project Management System: Cloud based Project
Management tool for Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches
- Dr. Srinivas Telukunta, Mr. Raghu Kumar Katakam, Mr. G Swamy Naidu, Mr. Srinivasu
Nimmakayala
http://www.slideshare.net/PMI2011/etpm5
http://starpmo.com/resources/StarPMO_Agile_Waterfall_Hybrid_2011.pdf

26. Differentiators
• Completely customizable (At source
code), Completely local and India based team
• Can integrate easily with existing ERP systems
• Can work with Hybrid PM implementations (Reality of
life). A loyal assistant for your managers.
• Unleash core Team is experienced with consulting
and management trainings which makes it easy to help
implement (Change management aspect)

27. A Sincere Thank You
for your Time