The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) is an open source project that is aimed to provide the software development community an extensible software process engineering framework with exemplary tools and process contents.  It is a great process initiative that offers, as a starting point, free-of-charge process tooling and content for organizations looking to standardize and manage their software development processes. However, as with other open source technologies, the lack of long-term support and in-house expertise continue to hold back enterprise adoption. New EPF users often face a steep learning curve when getting started with the EPF Composer tool, and find it hard to obtain help in tailoring the open process contents to their specific needs. 

Osellus provides a full-range of consulting services for each phase of your process development and enables you to adopt EPF with lower deployment risks. Osellus was an active participant and contributor of SPEM 2.0 - the underlying infrastructure that EPF is aiming to adopt over time.  Our in-depth knowledge in UMA Modeling and SPEM 2.0 allows us to gain a deep understanding of the features as well as the limitations with the current EPF Composer. As a leading provider of software development process solutions, our consultants have broad experience in tailoring a variety of open source processes as well as commercial methodologies, including OpenUP, RUP, and MSF. Whether you utilize our services in a support capacity to supplement internal EPF skills or engage us in a full process development agreement, our goal is to help you streamline the delivery of your processes to meet your business objectives.  

EPF Service Offerings

Process Assessment

Before deploying EPF, Osellus conducts an assessment of your development environment measured against EPF's open source technology and processes. This assessment includes an independent review of your existing development methodologies, practices, systems and tools. Osellus will determine your present process maturity level and recommend a staged improvement plan. By mapping the findings of this assessment to your business needs, we will be able to highlight the benefits you can expect to derive from your EPF adoption.

You will use the staged improvement plan to determine which recommendations to pursue. Osellus will use these recommendations to create your implementation roadmap. The roadmap includes the activities, deliverables and training for a successful implementation of your EPF solution. The Process Assessment service can take between 2-10 days of consulting effort.

Process Architecture

EPF Composer is a complex tool if you are looking to build an extensive set of custom libraries, method content and processes to support a broad variety of project types for your development environment. Osellus can work with you to build the required process infrastructure that satisfies your organizational process requirements, and develop a plan of action for moving your current process assets to EPF for your software development project framework.

Process Authoring and Tailoring

Whether you are planning to extend or tailor OpenUP provided by EPF, or develop your custom processes with EPF Composer, Osellus can extend your in-house expertise to help you avoid costly trial and error. We can guide you through your process development exercise on an as needed basis, or develop method content plug-ins quickly to meet your critical project needs.

EPF Deployment

Osellus offers quick start assistance to deploy EPF in your team environment. This service includes software installation and configuration, integration with your configuration management system and setup of hosting environment for published processes.

EPF Training and Coaching

We offer tailored training and mentoring for EPF Composer and OpenUP to help you meet your specific EPF requirements so you can realize the full benefits of your process authoring experience. 

EPF Support

The Osellus EPF Support Subscription allows you to gain greater control of your open source technology investment and receive ongoing value from the latest developments of EPF at your own pace.

Subscription benefits include:

• Expert Installation and configuration of software - Deploy EPF confidently with the backing of Osellus consultants. Obtain software updates when new releases become available.
• Optimize Tool Usage and Performance - Streamline system management and maintenance of your EPF environment. Be informed of improved features, patches and bug fixes through the lifetime of your subscription.
• Professional Support - Access our global support service at any time to address your EPF questions and needs.

EPF Integration

Once you have successfully created and published your processes from EPF, it is important that the consumers of the processes can benefit from them through direct consumption during real-time development. In addition to the published HTML process outputs offered by EPF, Osellus can help you integrate your processes with enactment tools, such as VSTS, and create process template for enactment. We also provide post EPF implementation support to ensure that all tools and processes are working properly in your environment.