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Panoptikon is a continuously evolving system. Launched in 2014, it has now reached its third generation, 3.1 The product development road map is tight and its scheduling exceeds 12 months (Exagogica today is already planning what will be released by next year). Development planning is defined on the basis of Exagogica general plans and in relation to the requirements requested by the customers and accepted by Exagogica.
 
In order to ensure the quality of the releases and reduce the impact of change management in the upgrading of the installations, Exagogica has defined a "total quality plan" named 4D+ aimed at Panoptikon development. This plan covers four development phases: Design, Development, Delivery and finally Distribution so as to guarantee the continuous improvement of the interface, the functions and the performances of the whole system. 4D+ is also the name of the software system through which Exagogica manages product development (it actually is an environment of Panotpikon composed of 4 modules, developed only for internal use and not marketed). 

First phase: Design

Design quality is the first step necessary to get quality finished product. For this reason, the design process of the functions to be implemented is rather complex. It starts from the explicit writing of all the specific requirements, moves from the visual definition of the sketches of all the functional pages provided and ends with the writing in the 4D+ system of all the single specifications to be implemented. The Design activity is completed when the Design Manager will include a group of specifications within a release. Therefore, the Design Phase is declared closed and the Development Phase is launched. 

 

Second phase: Development

The development is managed by the designated "Development Managers" that subdivide the specifications provided in the branch and have them implemented by the Developers. Each time a branch is completed, it is sent to the Delivery manager who will start next test phase. This type of work organization will allow to gradually carry out the test on partial releases, in order to identify any mistakes or incongruity far in advance.

 
 

Third phase: Delivery

The testing activity is managed by the "Delivery manager" who is responsible for the quality instance on which all the test and documentation activities take place from this point onwards. The test is carried out by performing the test cases deriving from the specifications entered into the system. If the test is negative, after the Delivery manager check, the code is taken by the developers to fix the detected non-conformities and resolve any anomalies.

Instead, if the first test is positive, the workflow provides the writing/updating of  the documentation (online help) in the first language, the subsequent check in the second language (Italian) and the translation of the documentation already issued.

 
 

Fourth phase: Distribution

The Distribution phase consists in the installation of the new release on existing instances. Each instance has its own manager: the Instance Manager. All the activity is coordinated by the Distribution Manager who also performs the analysis of the incident reports that are transmitted to him by the persons responsible of the instances. The activity of the Distribution manager is particularly important because it aggregates and certifies the feedback that will be provided by him to the Design Manager for the continuous improvement of the interface, functions and performances of Panoptikon.

 
 
 

Release History

Panoptikon is a continuously evolving system. 
Development planning is defined on the basis of Exagogica general plans and in relation to the requirements requested by the customers and accepted by Exagogica.
In order to ensure the quality of the releases and reduce the impact of change management in the upgrading of the installations, Exagogica has defined a "Total quality plan" named 4D+ for Panoptikon development starting from June 2017. This plan covers four development phases: Design, Development, Delivery and finally Distribution.
Last Release: Panoptikon 3.2 – Release and Distribution
With the official distribution of Panoptikon version 3.2, Exagogica provides a new and powerful tool for skills management.
Thanks to the new module being released, Panoptikon instances are able to manage their skill catalog in a more complete and efficient way; they can upload documentation for self-training and create assessment tests for skill certifications; they are able to monitor users' competence map and to launch surveys for skills detection and manage change requests to the skill catalog that are suggested by users. The new Competence Manager allows a multi-level catalog creation (common part, branch catalog, and site-private catalog) depending on the needs of each instance; the feature that manages "sectors" allows the identification of "reserved" ones, whose competences are used exclusively for the declaration of "Role profiles" requirements. 
Within this new module, it is possible to manage multi-languages, both regarding name of the sector/area/competence, as well as their description and related checklists. A specific tab on the detail page allows links insertion or uploading of documents related to a specific skill, which can be used in self-training activities. Each user can suggest new skills or improve existing ones; the Competence Manager module provides a workflow for process management, including notifications to interested parties. Two brand new features allow the creation of assessment tests associated with catalog skills, which can be used to certify skill levels or to determine whether the outcome of a training course has been positive or negative, and the planning and implementation of Surveys for the detection or updating of the knowledge base of the organization's population.
Finally, a new Home widget (MySkill) allows individual users to check their own "knowledge base" of skills, add new ones by selecting them from those present in the catalog, participate in a survey, send suggestions to improve an existing competence or insert a completely new one.
Design: 22th February 2019
Development: 27th May 2019
Delivery: 20th June 2019