5 Principles to Managing Your Application Lifecycle with SpiraTeam

®
1 | 1/25/2019 © Copyright 2006-2018 Inflectra Corporation
Five principles for Managing
application lifecycle with
SpiraTeam®
Journey into Agile with Inflectra
By: Sriram Rajagopalan
We will be starting the webinar shortly, please stand by…
All phones will be automatically on mute until the Q&A.
Webinar Starts at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Zone

®
Meet the Speaker
Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan
Education
Work
Experience
Training &
Certification
Teaching
Experience
PhD, MBA, MS, BE
PfMP, PgMP, PMP, SP,
RMP, ACP, CSM, CSPO,
ACC, CSD, SCT, CSOXP,
SSBB, Instructional
Designer, Speaker,
Writer, and Author
Software Engineer,
Team Leader,
Business Analyst,
Project Manager,
Scrum Master, Agile
Coach, Director,
Vice President
Several
Colleges in the
US, India, &
Vietnam

®
Introduction
▪ Today’s webinar is part of the 5-part series on “Journey
into Agile with Inflectra”
▪ Each webinar is 1-hour long. We will reserve time at the end
for questions
▪ The webinars introduce the concept using a tool
▪ There is some expectation on your part to setup access
with the SpiraTeam®
▪ The completion certificate is based on specific requirements
and passing a certification quiz

®
Agile By Inflectra Certificate Course
Start
Register for Webinar
Can’t
attend?
View Archive when
available
Experiment with SpiraTeam
Pass Quiz
Do for all 5 webinars
End http://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Entry/agile-by-inflectra-faqs-certificate-course-771.aspx

®
Journey into Agile with Inflectra
Five Principles
to Application
Lifecycle
Management
Master Four
Ceremonies to
deliver Agile
projects better
Master Five
Essentials to
managing your
requirements
Cutting the
Costs and
improving the
Quality
Excellence
through
Reporting in
Agile Projects

®
Getting Grounded
Project Managers /
Scrum Masters
Business Analysts /
Product Managers /
Product Owners
Architects /
Designers /
Developers / Testers
Operations /
Service Delivery
Program Managers /
Portfolio Managers

®
Challenge to Application Lifecycle
What’s the impact of each group’s preference to their preferred tool?
▪ Impact
▪ Requirements are in different places
▪ Tasks are ambiguous
▪ Test cases are incomplete
▪ Result
▪ Single central source of truth is lost
▪ Customer dissatisfactions increase
▪ Total Cost of Ownership goes up
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

®
Is Agile a Panacea?
75%
64%
55%
49%
46%
Accelerate Software Delivery Manage Change Priorities Increase Productivity Better Business/IT alignment Increased Software Quality
Reason for going Agile Ref.: State of Agile 2018 Survey

®
Application Lifecycle Management is
Project Management
Phases
• Initiation
• Planning
• Execution
• Monitoring & Control
• Closure
Product Management
Phases
• Discovery
• Define
• Design
• Construction
• Marketing
• Training
• Launch
Software Development
Lifecycle
• Analysis
• Design
• Build
• Test
• Deploy

®
5 Principles of Application Lifecycle Management
Services Traceability Auditability Governance Engineering
NOTE
• That these are principles that apply to any framework
• They are not sequential phases
• They apply to all business units in an organization
STAGE approach is coined by Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan

®
What does Governance involve?
• What does the customer want?Strategic Benefits
• How do we prioritize and deliver value?Coordinated Planning
• Managing dependencies and risks to deliveryComplex Interdependencies
• Continuously build, adjust, and deliverDeliverable Integration
• Sustain Operations along with delivery of new functionalityOptimized Pace

®
What does Traceability mean?
▪ Degree of relationship between two or more software
components
▪ Traceability is a one-way flow. It should be bidirectional
▪ Traceability goes across all project artifacts
▪ Traceability spans across test and production environments
▪ Traceability promotes transition planning, succession
planning, change impact analysis, test optimization, product
component reuse.

®
V-Model of Traceability
Business Case
Requirements
System Specifications
System Design
Module Design
Release Testing
Acceptance Testing
System Testing
Integration Testing
Unit Testing
Development
Engineer
Tester
Architect, Tester
Business Users
Extended Business Users

®
Challenges to Engineering
Mixing of framework due to inadequate exposure
• Product development framework (agile)
• Plan driven approach to project management (PMBOK, Prince2)
• Software development framework (SDLC often known as waterfall)
SDLC myths lead to the use/non-use/abuse of a tool
• SDLC involves linear approach to software development
• Big Upfront Requirements gathering
• Gathering requirements upfront saves cost
• Project Management is not part of software development
• High degree of Software Development needed before initiating any work
• Customers sees work after ALL work is developed and tested
• Testers need not be involved early in requirements stage
Royce, W. (1970). Managing the development of large software systems. Proceedings of IEEE, WESCOM, 1-9.

®
Challenges to Engineering
Rajagopalan, S. (2014). Review of the Myths on the Original Software Development Model. International
Journal of Software Engineering & Applications, 5(6), 103-111.
Flow was also
backward
Double feedback
loop suggested

®
Application Lifecycle tool supports
Source code
Management
Version
Control
Quality
Control &
Quality
Assurance
Manual and
Automated
Testing
Deployment
Support
Why ALM tool is not “Development” but “Engineering” interface?

®
What does Auditability involve?
Compliance needed for both procedures and process
Auditors look for evidences of what, how, who, and when
Rollout deployment impacting the cost of quality

®
Audit 101 Needs
Process Audit
• Ensures proactive controls in place
• Evaluates competencies and
capabilities to deliver outputs
• Reviews integrity of results as they
are achieved
• Incorporates measures and metrics
to assess effectiveness and
efficiency
Procedure Audit
• Conforms what tasks are being
performed
• Establishes standard operating
agreement for following processes
• Verifies decision making authority
on work package delivered
• Ensures training and documentation
is in place to perform the task

®
What does Services (Operations) involve?
When delivering software, think of the following:
• Can customer service field the request from the customers and end-users?
• Can Service Operations sustain the application in the production environment?
Some of these operations work involve
• Event Management
• Incident Management
• Application Management
• Access Management

®
Demo Time
▪ Let us explore basic features how SpiraTeam® provides a
one-stop interface to application lifecycle management

®
Summary
An application lifecycle management should support 5 principles
• Governance
• Traceability
• Development
• Auditability
• Operations
Specific features should support framework agnostic business processes
• Requirements Management
• Estimation & Planning
• Source code and Version control management
• Quality Control & Quality Assurance
• Deployment
• Collaboration
• Transition and succession planning

®
Q & A
▪ Please feel free to ask
questions
Course Administration
Ms. Thea Maisuradze
marketing@inflectra.com
Content
Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan
sriram@inflectra.com.

®
Next Steps:
1. Take the post-webinar quiz (link in email)
2. Register for the 2nd webinar of the series!
Thank you for watching!

5 Principles to Managing Your Application Lifecycle with SpiraTeam

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot (20)

Similar to 5 Principles to Managing Your Application Lifecycle with SpiraTeam (20)

More from Adam Sandman (20)

Recently uploaded (20)

5 Principles to Managing Your Application Lifecycle with SpiraTeam