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- 2. What is the Problem? When you analyze your past troubled projects for problem areas, you are likely to see the following issues… Missed & Misinterpreted Requirements • You did not notice the Requirements till it was too late or your development teams misinterpreted the Requirements Lack of Change Control • Requirements kept on changing late into the project Lack of Change Impact Analysis • No visibility into the impact of changing a Requirement Lack of Change Propagation. • No way to ensure that a changed Requirements has been communicated to downstream stakeholders Lack of visibility into Project progress and potential troublespots • No way to identify missed Requirements , incomplete Requirements till its too late Lack of clearly defined ownership of Requirements • Requirements fell through the cracks. 2/13
- 3. What is TraceCloud ? Flexible, Light weight and Powerful TraceCloud is a Requirements Management solution that is designed from ground up to be flexible, light weight and powerful. It differs from the existing players like Requisite Pro, Doors and Rally because it has a built in Business Intelligence system that identifies trouble spots and points them out before they become show stoppers. TraceCloud is designed to be flexible, so it can be used for Agile or Waterfall development methodologies. TraceCloud is feature rich, so when you start out , you don’t’ have to use all the features. You can start with a few features that matter to you and over time adopt advanced features. Lock down and control change Shared Requirements Collaboration Folders Baselining Word Integratio n Approval Work Flow Traceability Dynamic Documents Version Control Dashboards, Tre nds and Metrics Rich Requirements 3/13
- 4. Missed & Misinterpreted Requirements At every stage of the Project, how do you know that all the Requirements are addressed. Eg : Do all Business Requirements have a Functional Requirement, Do All Functional Requirements have a test case etc… 4/13
- 5. Missed & Misinterpreted Requirements TraceCloud has a built in Business Intelligence system that identifies the trouble spots before they become a big problem. 5/13
- 6. Change Control Requirements are organized into Folders in TraceCloud. You can control who can create, read, update, delete, approve, trace Requirements in any folder. Once your Requirements are mature and stable, you can lock them down, to control change. 6/13
- 7. Change Impact Analysis Change is the only constant. Before a change is considered, it may help to analyze its impact on other Requirements in the system. TraceCloud gives an easy to use, CIA feature, that traverses across projects in the system to show you the impact of changing a Requirement. 7/13
- 8. Change Propagation As Requirements change, we need a way to ensure that all the stakeholders (both upstream and downstream) are aware of the change and have accepted and internalized it. TraceCloud provides a visual and reportable confirmation of this propagation and acceptance. 8/13
- 9. Project Progress and Potential Troubles TraceCloud has a built in Business Intelligence System that crunches data from the production system (ETL) to generate reports from the Project, Release, Baseline, User, Folder perspective. So, depending on your role , you get Progress reports customized to you. Eg: Project Metrics for the Project Manager, Release Metrics for the Release Manager, User Metrics for any user, Folder Metrics for the status of all the Requirements in a Folder etc… 9/13
- 10. Requirement Ownership If a Requirements Management tool does not have a OTTC (One Throat To Choke) concept, then Requirements tend to fall through the ownership cracks. To prevent that, TraceCloud ensures that every Requirement has an owner and that every owner gets his own dashboard and reports. 10/13
- 11. Word, Excel and PDF integration At TraceCloud we recognize that a lot of work gets done in Word and Excel. Hence TraceCloud provides 2 way integration between Word & TraceCloud and Excel & TraceCloud. For example, you can a word document (like BRD, or MRD or SFS doc) and parse it to generate Requirements and at any point in time, regenerate this document with the latest information from the system. 11/13
- 12. Other important features Cross Project Connectivity • You can relate Requirements in project to another project’s Requirements. Built in Document Control System • At any point in the project’s progress, you can snapshot any report and save it as a word, pdf, excel document in a document control system for audit purposes. Shared Requirements • You can publish a set of well defined Requirements, that can then be imported and implemented in other projects. As a publisher of Requirements you can track their development progress across multiple projects. Web Services API • TraceCloud comes with a rich set of JSON (XML), REST APIs for integrating with your existing systems 12/13
- 13. Q&A More Info : • https://www.tracecloud.com/GloreeJava2/jsp/WebSite/screenShots.jsp Contact Us : • [email protected] (408) 431 1024 • [email protected] (650) 224 8890 Web Site • www.tracecloud.com 13/13
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- 15. What is TraceCloud ? The Solution A Requirements Management tool that helps you Define, Collaborate, Manage, Measure and Deliver on your Requirements. Warning : The solution should be fast, secure, user friendly, scalable and affordable, otherwise the overhead may not justify the investment. Problem: Requirements were not clearly defined Problem: Relationship between Requirements not clear Problem: Un authorized changes to Requirements Solution: Define and uniquely identify requirements Solution: Ability to trace and generate change reports Solution: Ability to control access (update, trace privileges) Problem: Changes were not communicated to stake holders Problem: Lack of visibility into Project Progress Problem: Requirements did not have clear owners Solution: In built notification system and suspect trace triggers Solution: Dashboards showing Trending and Metrics for Projects, Releases, and Users Solution: Define owners, and provide easy reporting to locate problem areas
- 16. What is TraceCloud ? The Core TraceCloud is a Web2.0 SAAS / On Premises Requirements Management solution. We understand that Requirements Management is an overhead, and we try to make the entire effort easy, fast and productive . • Use Excel, Word to import your Requirements • Define your Requirement types and attributes to suit your needs • Use folders to organize and manage your Requirements • Easy ,yet powerful Traceability • Generate/Save Trace reports that show hierarchy of relationships • Understand change impact • Export to Excel , PDF or Word Identify & Define Requirements Relate (Trace) Requirements TraceCloud Approval & Change Control • • • • Lock down folders Define roles and privileges Control change Use built in approval work flow and change notification Reporting & Visibility • Dashboards with built in Reports and Trend charts let you track progress at Project, Release, and User levels • Easily Identify trouble spots before they go out of control
- 17. What is TraceCloud? DeploymentOptions SAAS On Site • Amazon Cloud • Secure • Scalable • Low Cost • Pay per user / month model • Your Data Center • Secure • Data within your firm • One time fee + Annual Maintenance fee
- 19. Why is TraceCloud Better? SAAS Usability Scalability Performance • No Major Player • Lower TCO • Easy to Adopt • Focus on ease of use • Context sensitive help • Scale to very large projects • Scale to large number of users • Fast Response
- 20. Why is TraceCloud Better? Current •Review •Comment •Approve / Reject Collaboration •Be Notified Business Intelligence End to End Integration Shared Requirements •Project, Release, Baseline, User, Folder level views •Actionable Metrics •Trend Metrics to work towards a goal •Canned Reports •Requirements, Test, Defect, Document Control •Support for TL900, ISO 9000 Audit •Re Use Requirements across product lines •Drive best practices across the organization
- 21. Why is TraceCloud Better? Future Auto Pilot Time Bomb Group Hug • • • • Gates Dates Deliverables Nag Levels • Customer Commitments • Key Feature Requests • Exposure, Time lines, EscalationsEnd to End Integration • • • • Ideation & Requirement Elicitation Collaboration with Clients Rankings & Prioritization Customer Need Business Requirements Functional Requirement Test Case Test Result Tested & Delivered Customer Need
- 22. TraceCloud Internals Concept Approach Design Since the other solutions in the market have usability and performance issues, TraceCloud was created as a next generation web solution that is scalable, fast and easy to use. TraceCloud can open large projects with 100,000+ requirements in < 10 seconds. Security This tool is designed around the SAAS model with special attention to making it secure. •Security @ System, Project, Folder and Traceability level. •https (SSL) security for all transactions. •Changes to projects are logged in the database. •Changes to requirements are logged in the database. •Encrypted authentication information. Scalability The tool works seamlessly for large projects, including very large projects with over 100,000+ requirements. It can build a trace tree of depth 5, for a project with 100,000+ requirements in less than a minute. The SAAS environment is tested to support up to 6000 users . (300 simultaneous sessions) Performance The tool uses AJAX and passes ONLY relevant information back and forth between the client and the server. Result : Requirements that open in less than 1 second … Always.
- 23. TraceCloud Internals Concept Underlying Tech Approach TraceCloud is built using standard J2EE technologies. (HTML, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets). It is designed to be extensible (uses MVC framework) and makes use of AJAX. In the backend, the tool uses Oracle or mySQL. Extensibility TraceCloud API is a JSON based REST API that exchanges JSON (light XML) objects over HTTP. This model is an industry standard. Note , in ReqPro, the API is inefficient because you have to wait while ReqPro opens projects and then sends a response back. With TraceCloud API technology, there is no concept of opening a Project and after authentication, you will get your information back, directly from the database, as a JSON packet. Packages TraceCloud has leveraged industry best practices to build a solution that is fast, easy to use and powerful. Here are few examples : •For Rich Excel integration, TraceCloud uses Apache POI package •For Usability, Look & Feel ,and Rich requirements, TraceCloud uses YUI (Yahoo User Interface) •For Microsoft Word integration, TraceCloud uses Aspose 1/12
- 24. TraceCloudCompetition Feature IBM Requisite Pro IBM (Telelogic) Doors Rally TraceCloud Architecture Legacy Legacy New Generation New Generation Performance (Scalability, Speed) Slow Slow Fast Fast Usability Poor Poor Very Good Very Good Requirements Management (Define, Trace, Track) Good Good Poor Good Flexibility (Agile, TL9000, Waterfall development processes) Flexible Flexible Agile only Flexible Reporting Yes Yes Yes Yes Built in Dashboards (Metrics, Trends, Reports) from different perspectives (i.e. Project, Release, User etc…) No No No Yes SAAS / On Site On Site only On Site only Both Both Built in Approval Workflow No No No Yes Granular Baselining No No No Yes Powerful MS Excel integration Partial Partial Partial Full MS Word Integration Yes No No Yes API Legacy, Slow API Fast API available Web services API available Web Services API in Dec 09 Vendor size, duration Large organization, established player Large organization, established player Small organization, new player Small organization, new player Cost $2360 per user one time, $800 per user per year maintenance $3686 per user one time + annual maintenance $35 + $ 10 + $ 10 + $10 + $10 = $75 per month per user $85 per month read write, $50 per month read only per user
- 25. Demo –A day in the life of … Product Manager Dev Engineer Release Manager • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Get PRD Create Reqs Set Attributes Trace to Release Baseline and Track Review Reqs Add Comments Get through CC TL9000, and Audit CYA Create FRs Build dynamic SFS At EC no dangling PRs At EC take snapshot TDCS Track stuff to completion Testing Status Dangling Orphan Trend Release Data Find trouble spots Harass people Get Release to production
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