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ALM – Application Lifecycle Management

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Plan and manage your project fulfill customer requirements

precisely distribute work and resources

predict whether your plan is feasible to meet deadlines

Monitor and manage progress have instant access to the status and evidence of risks of current projects

Comply follow project / organization policies

adhere to best industry practices

fulfill contractual obligations

Certificate provide traceability to fulfill certification criteria (ISO-x, FDA, DO-178, IEC-x, etc.)

decrease certification cost

support standards like MISRA, JSF, etc.

Improve optimize products and processes based on historical data (post-mortem analysis)

increase efficiency, performance and utilization

track down where your cost is located

Policies

Artifacts

Reports

Tasks

Burn-down chart

Planned vs Actual

What is Concerto?Concerto is a complete Software Development Lifecycle Management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently.

Concerto consists of the following components:

Project Center to manage project development

Report Center to data mine from multiple sources, and provide online project status based on predefined metrics

Policy Center to flexibly define customer expectations and demands, regulatory environments, etc., and implement into development process

Team Server to share various project-related artifacts among team members

What methodologies are supported?Concerto fully supports Agile and iterative approach (Scrum, XP, etc.) as well as more traditional metho-dologies (i.e. waterfall). Concerto is the answer to main pain points realized during Agile projects development, such as:

capturing requirements

lack of automation tests

people spread across projects

support agile and non-agile projects

What does Concerto provide you?Concerto allows you to keep an eye on end to end development process, and address key reasons for the failure of projects, whether it is incomplete planning, poor requirements, lack of tracking, issues during in-field phase, and finally poor quality. With the comprehensive scorecard that Concerto provides, you can track performance and utilization, identify what parts of your process could be improved, manage risks, and check whether your team is following process in the right way.

Actual working time

Designing / Planning1%

Based on the data collected from one release to another, you can optimize your process and improve productivity and quality of your products.

Concerto provides full traceability of your project artifacts (requirements, tasks, defects) by monito-ring changes in the code, time spent and test ran against each artifact.

Additionally, Concerto helps you implement best industry practices and standards, end to end verification and validation, control code quality, as well as build, test, deploy and maintain your final product.

What about existing infrastructure?Unlike other products, Concerto does not try to replace your existing software development infrastructure. Rather, it integrates with its elements: source control, bug tracking and requirements management systems, as well as your Parasoft testing solutions and third party tools.

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Benefits

For Leadership: On-line view of the current project(s) status and trends

Instant deep dive and post mortem analysis (easy access to historical data)

Information about performance, utilization and costs

Risk management and change management

For Development Team: Common collaboration platform for whole development team

(PMs, IT analysts, developers, QA, tech writers)

Team is always on this same page (on-line project status)

Streamlines development workflow by automated task distribution and practically eliminating reporting on progress

Clear view of the backlog

Easy integration with external development systems (requirements systems, bug tracking systems, source repositories, IDEs)

Full support for QA and testing activities (planning, tracking, automated and manual tests, regression, etc.)

Change-based testing – enables QA team to focus on testing only the affected functionality

For Organization: Common set of KPIs for whole organization

Common development framework

Continuous process improvement (support for CMMI)

No geographical limitations – full support for follow-the-sun approach (24/7)

Easy adoption for the best industry practices and standards: Agile, SCRUM, XP, code review, coding standards, static analysis, etc.

Full support for industry standards (ISO, FDA, etc.)

Gathers all important data from various existing sources into one place, providing clear visibility into trends and behaviors

Components supported by Concerto

Platforms Windows, Linux, Solaris

Source repositories AccuRev, Borland StarTeam, CVS, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe,

MKS Source Integrity, Perforce P4 IBM ClearCase, Serena Dimensions, Serena Version Manager (PVCS) CLI and PCLI, Subversion, Telelogic CM Synergy

Bug tracking systems Bugzilla, IBM ClearQuest, Altassian JIRA, HP Quality Center

(former Mercury Test Director)

Any system capable of producing files in CSV format

Requirement management Import from Excel , DOORS, IBM Rational RequisitePro

or other systems through CSV format

Build systems Makefile (C/C++), Ant, Maven

Development environments: Eclipse, MS Visual Studio

Project Management: MS Project