The professional services staff of Pegasystems Inc. employs an implementation methodology based in part on the Rational Unified Process (RUP). The focus is on project management, return on investment, conformance to best practices and compliance requirements, communication with stakeholders, and the creation of physical artifacts that help ensure project success.

Pegasystems' methodology includes the following phases:

• Business Value Assessment phase — Assess return on investment, define success criteria, understand high-level requirements. Produces a project plan, scope document, and project sizing estimate
• Conception phase — Analyze the problem domain, define requirements, establish a scalable architectural foundation, and identify high-risk elements. Produces a requirements document, a high-level design document, test plan, and deployment plan.
• Elaboration phase — Design solutions tailored to the business requirements
• Construction phase — Iterative development following a build order
• Transition phase — Deploy, validate, and use

You can access application wizards that are part of the Direct Capture of Objectives that can speed early phases of the development methodology.

For more information on the methodology, see Pega Developer Network articles PRKB-25565 Implementation Methodology — Contents and PRKB-25665 Introduction to the Pegasystems Implementation Methodology.

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