The companies associated to the Smart City Cluster, Métrica6 and Atech, Allied Technologies have presented the Agile office suite for business and project management, developed by both companies, within a project, driven by the cluster of smart cities and enrolled in the program 2018-2019 of support for innovative business groups (AEI) of the Ministry of Industry.
The innovative platform, presented at the headquarters of the ON-GRANADA Cluster, uses agile methodologies and is designed so that SMEs and micro-SMEs in the ICT sector, especially, can manage their businesses and projects.

In the presentation event, the qualities and format of the commercial version of the platform have been highlighted, which will integrate billing solutions, project management using agile methodologies, control of working hours and other essential tools for any company, independently its size, but specially designed for SMEs and micropymes.

“AGILE is the tool that we wish we had when we started our company,” said the CEO of Métrica6, Eduardo Dueñas, during the event, while explaining that “this technology has been created by companies specialized in the development of projects of a different nature, including manufacturing, hence the importance of applying agile methodologies to increase their performance. ”

The AGILE platform will continue its evolution by adding new functions according to market demand, through requests that companies and organizations communicate to their creators to optimize their administration and management resources, saving considerable costs in the process, and therefore, increasing directly your productivity. For his part, the CEO of Atech, Pedro Manjón has asserted before the attendees that “it is not necessary to be a great company to be able to enjoy a good management and control of projects. AGILE is thought of as an easy adoption tool that enhances business control with an acceptable cost for freelancers and SMEs. ”

During the execution of the project, several companies collaborated as beta testers of the solution, so that they could access the platform for free and test it for a minimum of one year to verify its effectiveness.

Agile platform

The Agile platform incorporates 3 modules with the following characteristics:

• Project Management Module through agile methodologies: which includes management of schedules and times to the tasks of a project, calendar, Gantt planner, facilitates the management of the human resources associated with several projects, allows to assign not only salary costs but also material costs, of infrastructure, of consumption, etc. to each task, and with
• Billing and Warehouse Module, whose advantage is that it allows each time a purchase invoice with an inventoryable good is introduced, it passes to the available warehouse units, automatically updating the inventory; the same as when a delivery note is generated or an invoice is issued, which is deducted from the warehouse the component units used to create a specific product.
• The last module is that of Customer and Supplier Management, which not only allows to have a database of these but also to associate historical purchases or invoices issued / received or even, when combined with the Warehouse Module, to associate supply periods for each component of each supplier, so that purchases can be planned in advance of the materials used for each project or assignment.