There are significant challenges involved in distributed development. Geographic and time barriers not only impede face-to-face interaction, they also complicate the data gathering and analysis process. As a rest, projects are typically plagued by miscommunication and disconnects. Without a workable version-control system, issue and defect tracking become a time-consuming chore.

At the same time, ctural, experiential and work-model differences plague project management. Conflicts arise due to report diversity. Lack of established metrics makes it diffict to gauge compliance to project timelines and deliverables. That's why outsourcing continues to be a problematic undertaking. Recent surveys by analyst firm Compass show that more than 25 percent of outsourcing deals fail in the first year. Within three years, more than 50 percent of client organizations seek to renegotiate their contracts, often with other vendors - a very costly and often risky affair.
 
LUXproject™ is an integrated, 100 percent Web-based solution that drives the creation of software by distributed development teams.

LUXproject™ encompasses the entire software development lifecycle - from initial analysis to post-production issues. It addresses the needs of all parties involved: customers, project managers, business analysts, development teams, tech support and QA teams.
 
LUXproject™ achieves this via a flexible yet precise project platform that streamlines communications, prevents dropped balls and facilitates the timely achievement of objectives. It also establishes a centralized knowledge base accessible to all parties involved and harnesses this to synchronize processes regardless of time zone, location or ctural differences.

By establishing a secure collaboration platform, LUXproject™ ensures the integrity of the software while improving its overall versatility.

It is an innovative combination of software and best practices that integrates the processes, tools and distributed teams involved in distributed development. LUXproject™ incorporates best -of- breed non-proprietary open source and commercial solutions in order to dispense with the need to deploy proprietary systems. This includes JIRA (defect/issue tracking system), Confluence (wiki), Subversion (source control), CruiseControl (build server), WebDAV (files sharing), FishEye, etc.. Luxoft uses LUXproject™ for more than 3 years and this rested in improved effectiveness, greater control of distributed resources, faster time-to-market and lowered costs.

LUXproject™ integrates every facet of project management and tracking into one product with a single sign on, and comprehensive security. In addition, it includes "project templates" based on best practices evolved from Luxoft's many years of experience as a CMMI Level 5 compliant organization using the Software Engineering Institute's methodology for creating high quality, defect-free code.

LUXproject™ offers:

• Uniform and transparent project environment accessible from anywhere.
• End-to-end view of every facet of a project, updated each minute.
• Requirements flexibility: from high-level tasks to source code, application defects and test cases, as well as user/administrator documentation.
• Comprehensive risk management tracking.
• Issue reporting and task management: easy access to subtasks greatly simplifies the tracking of requirements.
• Issue Tracking Linked Source code: change-log and change-set details can be attached to one or more tasks, sub-tasks, defects and test cases.
• Resource and time management: on-the-fly statistics for tracking the timeline for every resource in any number of projects simtaneously.
• In-depth project reports: saved personal and shared filters; detailed search criteria for controlling all predefined or custom issue attributes; easy creation of custom reports; flexible visualization of any built-in, custom personal, and/or shared reports.
• Heightened project security.