First of all we would like to tell you that having read a lot of literature having taken many Project Management classes, we understood one common thing that there are no standard methodologies which can manage your projects from the beginning to the end. What we did here was that we read numerous books about PMP got consulting from well known specialists and chose minimalist approach of Project Management.
The process mainly consists of phases listed below.
There are many tools in the market for managing such kind of processes we researched and stopped on the ones written down below
We have customized packages of Trac http://trac.edgewall.org/ -Open Source Project Management System
Main functionality of Trac includes:
Project Management (Task Definition and Assignment, RoadMaps Definition)
Knowledge Management System
Trac has an intergraded Wiki and gives us an opportunity to collect all research data and documentation at one place. Acting this way we are trying to minimize the loss of technical or corporate information, and ensure a smooth flow of information with one another.
Our system also has an integrated solution for Bug tracking, thus when developers complete their work there comes time for QA team to test the program/application. All founded bugs are marked and fixed in the system.
Work Analysis
Trac has s strong reporting system, generating different types of reports. It helps us to find weak points of our employees and try to improve or eliminate them.
For more details, refer to http://trac.edgewall.org/