Per my previous introduction to Product Management Applications, this writeup summarizes Orcanos QPack Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
Orcanos QPack ALM 2.0 - is an application lifecycle management solution covering development lifecycle stages such as marketing and product requirements definition, system specifications creation, development, testing, and delivery. It consists of the following modules and capabilities:
Market Requirements
- Based on Blackblot’s methodology for Market Requirements definition and traceability, this module allows the product manager to manage marketing data by defining target user profiles, directives, rationales, constraints and sources
- Provides traceability verification between market requirements management and product requirements management, as part of the whole Development Life cycle process
- Coverage of market requirements can be traced through the product requirements definition and on which version, the features definition phase, its testing and quality measurements, design documents, defects reported, and changes over the development lifecycle process
Product Requirements
- Allows user to capture various requirements types, create a basic product structure, define priorities and effort estimations, submitted to an automated and predefined workflow
- Provides content management and release planning capabilities through the development lifecycle using requirements traceability and measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) such as testing coverage, R&D coverage, defects coverage and much more
- Allows a the system architect to build a product/project software requirements tree based on predefined market requirements to be used as the basic template for all development phases
- Allows the R&D department to add software specifications and development tasks to each requirement
- Allows the QA department to manage the requirements testing process by adding test cases and test execution sets
- Through the Release Management module assign or change requirements between target product versions with ability to add requirements and change requests to a version-independent pool and later add them to a specific version
- Users can track version changes, trace and manage requirement relations, and assess impact of changes
Design, Development and Task Management
- Allows developers to know at any time which activities to carry out in terms of priority and target version, the time frame allocated for these activities, and covering each requirement with design documents
- Provides an automatic notifications module and dynamic workflow that initiates a controlled and easy approval process
- Integrates with various source controls such as Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Perforce and ClearCase
- Provides bidirectional integration with MS Project
Test Management
- Designed for both hardware and software testing
- Allows QA to begin test planning directly from the requirements ensuring traceability
- Provides version changes and defects reporting including graphs
- Allows all test data to be easily reused for future versions and releases
- Manages test parameters to support complex testing environments (e.g., multiple operating systems, browsers, and other internal factors) with each combination of parameters saved in a test instance for later execution of testers
- Provides automatic and manual test execution with test results saved, and can be viewed at any point
- Provides a bug tracking tool that allows users to report defects directly from tests with ability to track from detection to resolution
- Tests can be grouped depending on project needs and tests assigned to a group of testers or single tester
- Query test results by requirements, versions, test cycles and more
QPACK Analytics
- Reports allow managers to view project history, progress of requirements coverage
- Provides tools to track requirements, development coverage, releases with searching, filtering, and alerting regarding the project’s progress
- Release Manager that tracks and monitors all changes in a specific version and provides measurements (e.g., project completion, failure probability) presented in graphical gauges and graphs
- Graph Generator provides an executive dashboard that gives users a quick view of their projects’ current rate, allows for the design development progress trend graphs, and runs quality checks (e.g., defect tracking, open vs. closed defects, test runs, pass vs. failed tests, etc.)
Other key features:
- A central repository allows users to easily share projects, while working in distributed environments
- An Action Items module offers a simple interface that lets the user create, communicate and complete action items, manage meeting summaries, and report results.
- A risk management tool allows users to create risk objects and manage risk properties such as RPN (= Risk Priority Numbers) , Mode of failure, cause of failure, effect of failure and risk reduction. Each risk can be related to a specific requirement.
- MS-Word integration allows users to create content such as system requirements document, action items, or detailed designs in Microsoft-Word and seamlessly integrate it with the QPack ALM requirements tree.
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