ALM Solutions
Project Planning
Project planning is the key aspect of successful project completion and a well-planned project is a foundation for successful project delivery. The fundamentals are associated with resource planning, setting timelines, planning deliverables, and marking achievable milestones.
- Atlassian Jira
- IBM Engineering Workflow Management
- Siemen Polarian ALM
Requirements Management
Requirements management is a continuous process of tracing, analyzing, prioritizing, and documenting requirements throughout a project. Poor requirements management is one of the key contributing factors to the failure of a project that can lead to rework, quality issues, and cost overrun. ALM requirements management provides clarity of what is needed thus avoiding wastage of time, resources, and effort.
The significant increase in engineering data and complexity requires new ways to capture and manage requirements across the entire product lifecycle. Being able to capture relationships and manage dependencies across many variants and to collaborate in real-time with teammates across other locations is common.
Requirements Management
- IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
- IIBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Family
- Siemens Polarion Requirements
Design, Modelling and Development
Design & modelling is required during the lifecycle to deliver critical capabilities that help systems engineers and software developers to create embedded and real-time products & applications and face demands for complex, connected deliverables – usually with little time to produce and test the systems and software before they go into production.
Design, Modelling and Development
- IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
- IBM Rational Software Architect
Configuration Management
Configuration management is a standard process that organizations depend upon to manage the changes introduced to their software products and applications. It empowers teams to establish, maintain and track changes introduced to complex software systems through reliable version selection and version control of artifacts.
Configuration Management
- IBM Engineering Workflow management
- IBM Global Configuration Management
- Siemens Polarion ALM
Testing and Quality Management
Post implementation, the phase of testing and quality check gains prominence. Testing ensures verification and validation of developed product. A test management solution supports software and system-based testing with manual efforts as well as automation-based testing. This empowers the team to deliver a quality product with improved operational efficiency and lower risk.
Testing and Quality Management
- Engineering Test Management
- Siemens Polarion QM
- Rational Function Tester
- Rational Performance Tester
- Rational Test Realtime
Build and Release Management
Build management is the process of converting source code files into binary files to reflect on end-users’ computers. It is a pre-release version of a program within the ALM process flow. The release management on the other hand is the process intended to oversee the development, testing, deployment, and support of software releases. This phase ensures setting-up and automation of development and delivery without compromising the consistency, integrity, and regulatory compliance.
Build and Release Management
- IBM Engineering Workflow management
- Siemens Polarion ALM
Change Management & Defect Tracking
A change management solution is essential within the ALM process flow to track and manage the ever-increasing change requests from various sources to ensure that a change request goes through a predefined set of processes to be analyzed, reviewed, and validated before implementation.
A defect on the other hand is identified when the expected and actual result doesn’t match during the test execution phase. Defect tracking is essential to capture, examine, and review the defect identified to fix the same within the stipulated time.
Change Management & Defect Tracking
- Atlassian Jira
- IBM Engineering Workflow Management
- Siemen Polarian ALM
Risk and Hazard Management
Risk is the possibility that an event may occur and adversely impact the objective of the software lifecycle management. It is generally caused due to a lack of information, control, or time. An ALM solution helps to monitor and manage risk by capturing, identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing, to trace and mitigate it.
Risk and Hazard Management
- IBM Engineering Workflow management
- Siemens Polarion
Audit Metrics and Reports
Audit Metrics are essential to understand the project status whereas, reports with efficient format control enables external review, certification, and project documentation.
An integrated reporting application ensures automated report generation from multiple data sources while avoiding inconsistency and duplication of data.
- IBM Engineering lifecycle optimization – Publishing
- Jazz Reporting Service.
Variant Management and Componentization
Variant management is essential to harness the power of reuse, an increase in productivity, and reduction of duplication and delays. It enables the grouping of products into product lines and explicit variants in the context of cross-disciplinary product line engineering without duplication of data.
Variant Management and Componentization
- IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
- Siemens Polarion ALM