Accelerating Project Delivery

As described in the Agile Manifesto, traditional waterfall software methodologies and lifecycles have failed to delivery projects on-time and on-budget. In addition, many systems built this way will fail to provide the expected business value as there is no ability to quickly refine the requirements as the project progresses.

Consequently software development has been transformed with these new ideas and concepts, with new methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, DSDM and AUP becoming common. However the traditional tools of project management - requirements specifications, high level project plans, GANTT charts, white-board schedules and top-down task management - are too cumbersome and not well suited.

SpiraPlan® provides a complete Agile Project Management System in one package, that can manages your project's requirements, releases, iterations, tasks and issues in one environment, fully synchronized:

SpiraPlan Block Diagram

In addition, SpiraPlan® provides reporting dashboards of key project progress and risk indicators - task progress, effort slippage, project velocity, task burndown/burnup, top risk and issues – in one consolidated view.

Look at some of the features that make SpiraPlan your best choice for agile project management:

Project Scoping

  • Develop high-level requirements with initial estimates
  • Create notional project schedule with major releases
  • Prioritize and schedule requirements for each release
  • Determine resourcing levels to deliver required features

Planning & Scheduling

  • Decompose requirements into detailed task breakdown
  • Refine project schedule to include release iterations
  • Allocate tasks to iterations based on detailed task estimates
  • Load-balance project resources to maximize project velocity

Tracking & Reporting

  • Users enter project issues and defects during lifecycle
  • Track issues and defects against project schedule
  • View project velocity, burndown and burnup reports
  • Customizable dashboards of key project information

How To Use SpiraPlan

At the initial stages of a project, the project manager will use SpiraPlan in conjunction with the business users to determine the initial high level scope of the project, the key features and requirements. Working with the technical team, the project manager can begin to develop a high level release schedule and assign initial priorities and work estimates to the different features.

Once the project is underway, the combined business and technical team work together to develop the iteration plan for the releases, break up the features into discrete stories and tasks and begin assigning the tasks to the individual iterations. During development as the team work to complete the various tasks and stories, the system will track changes in the actual effort to determine if the plan needs to be rebalanced to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

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