ALM Description
MicroGenesis is a leading solutions provider of holistic Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with over 20+ years of experience in handling various ALM applications. We understand that ALM tools are crucial for automating and streamlining of the software development process for an organisation. We have partnered with leading ALM vendors to deliver the best ALM solutions to our customers. Our team with its expertise and knowledge has served multiple clients across various geographies and has helped them scale-up in the market.
Project Planning
A well-planned project is the foundation for a successful project delivery. Setting timelines, milestones, and planning deliverables and resources are the fundamental of project planning.
A project planning application should facilitate real-time collaboration, access to a centralized data repository, cross-project visibility, in-built project monitoring and reporting capabilities with various views and perspectives such as Gantt chart, work breakdown structure, Kanban board, etc are key to developing quality software on time and in-budget.
Benefits
Dynamic project planning
Integration with change management and defect tracking activities
Traceability to real-time data from planned activities
Resource management
Alerts and notifications
Applications for project planning:
Atlassian Jira
IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Siemen Polarian ALM
Requirements Management
Poor requirements management is one of the key contributing factors to the failure of a project and leads inevitably to rework, quality issues, and cost overrun.
The time where documents, spreadsheet, emails and wikis were sufficient to manage engineering requirements are over. The significant increase in engineering data and complexity requires new ways to capture and manage requirements across the entire product lifecycle. Being able to capture relationships and manage dependencies across many variants and to collaborate in real-time with teammates in other geographies is nowadays the norm.
Benefits
Live collaboration with a single source of truth
Gain consistency and transparency, minimize rework and increase reusability
Traceability within requirements and with other engineering artefacts such as design, implementation items, builds, test artefacts and defects.
Understanding Change, Gap analysis and impact analysis
Versioning requirements
Applications for Requirements Management:
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Family
Siemens Polarion Requirements
Design, Modelling & Development
Design & modelling is required during the lifecycle to deliver critical capabilities that help systems engineers and software developers to create embedded and real-time products & applications and face demands for complex, connected devices – usually with little time to produce and test the systems and software before they go into production.
Modelling is a central part of all the activities that lead up to the deployment of good Product. Models are built to communicate the desired structure and behaviour of the system, visualize and control the system’s architecture, better understand the system we are building, often exposing opportunities for simplification and reuse and to manage risk.
Design & Modelling application should support the communication and collaboration needs of a diverse team with strong support for the full requirements lifecycle, from specification and development through test and delivery. The modelling tools helps in creating embedded and real-time applications
Benefits
Analyse and elaborate project requirements
Rapidly move from design to implementation
Automate design reviews and generate documentation
Prototype, simulate and execute designs for early validation
Work in an embedded, real-time agile engineering environment
Applications for Design & Modelling:
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
IBM Rational Software Architect
Configuration Management
Configuration management is a process for establishing, maintaining and tracking versions of artefacts such as project plans, requirements, design, code, test artefacts and various other operational information throughout the lifecycle of a software application or a product.
Benefits
Reuse
Avoiding duplication of information
Roll back to previous versions
Applications for Configuration Management:
IBM Engineering Workflow management
IBM Global Configuration Management
Siemens Polarion ALM
Testing & Quality Management
While Testing is a process of verification and validation of the software or product being developed, a Quality Management solution helps decision makers and quality professionals to collaborate and ensure effortless communication among team members designed for test planning, test construction and execution, workflow control, tracking and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives. Thus, providing extreme clarity for immediate feedback maximizing efficiency and reducing costs.
A test management solution supports both software and system-based testing along with manual and automation-based testing and also helps teams deliver greater quality product, improve operational efficiency & continuously lower risk.
Benefits
Report on key quality metrics to ensure the business goals and objectives of the software releases are met
Traceability from requirements, design and code to test artefacts.
Keep track of test results and its corresponding defects.
Identify gap analysis and impact analysis
Requirements driven testing
Applications:
Test Management:
Engineering Test Management
Siemens Polarion QM
Test Management:
Rational Function Tester
Rational Performance Tester
Rational Test Realtime
Build & Release Management
Setup and automate the continuous delivery and iterative development to release frequently without compromising the consistency, integrity and regulatory compliance. Ensure that what gets built is what was planned by detailed product release to line of code traceability.
Plan your entire development process using the Plans feature to manage releases, sprints, and sub-releases. Assign artefacts such as user stories, requirements, work items and tests etc. to releases, to ensure full coverage from design to development to production.
Benefits:
Continuous Integration/Continuous deployment
Integration with build automation solutions
Realtime monitoring and reporting
Support multiple process and practices
Applications for build & release management:
IBM Engineering Workflow management
Siemens Polarion ALM
Change Management & Defect Tracking
Change is inevitable. The evolution of new technologies, process and guidelines are increasing day by day and to stay updated to the updating trends, changes in the existing product or software application is significant.
A change management solution is essential to track and manage the ever-increasing change requests from various sources and ensure that a change request go through a predefined set of process to ensure that the change is analysed, reviewed and validated before it is approved for implementation whereas Defect tracking is essential to capture, examine and review the defect identified and fix the same within the stipulated time.
Benefits:
Address the cost of poorly managed change.
Creating consistency and efficiencies in approach
Understand the impact of change
Track the progress of the defect or change request
Reduced cycle time
Applications:
IBM Engineering Workflow Management
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Siemens Polarion
Risk & Hazard Management
Risk is the possibility that an event will occur that adversely affects the achievement of an objective It is generally caused due to lack of information, control or time.
Risk Management is the process of identifying, capturing, analyse, prioritizing, mitigating and monitoring the risk during the lifecycle of the product under development.
Benefits:
Reduced uncertainty
learning and improvement
Reduce impact and loss
Applications:
IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Siemens Polarion
Audit Metrics & Reports
Audit Metrics are important to understand the project status whereas reports with efficient format control is essential for various reasons such as external review, certification, project documentation, etc.
An integrated reporting application will ensure automated creation of reports from multiple data sources while avoiding inconsistency and duplication of data and also provision design of templates to tailor the report format according to your need.
Benefits:
Live insight of project progress
Demonstrate compliance, communicate across contractual boundaries
Support offline review of engineering data
Communicate engineering data with the extended team
Generate reports in various output formats
Reuse templates
Applications:
IBM Engineering lifecycle optimization – Publishing
Variant Management & Componentization
Organizing products into product lines and explicit variants in the context of cross-disciplinary product line engineering without duplication of data is a widely used means of meeting individual customer requirements quickly and on competitive terms.
Variant Management is essential to harness the power of reuse, increase productivity, and reduce errors and delays.
Benefits:
Facilitate reuse
Automate flow changes across variants
Avoid inconsistency and duplication of data across variants.
Facilitate parallel engineering and development of products
Improve quality and reduce cost
Applications:
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
Siemens Polarion ALM
ALM Training
Ensure a successful product or software delivery by attending our courses on ALM solutions. To unlock the full potential of ALM solutions, we provide training on IBM ELM, IBM Rational (legacy), Siemens Polarion, Intland CodeBeamer and Atlassian solutions. Our training session includes live demonstrations followed by Lab exercises to provide a comprehensive understanding of ALM solutions. The trainings can be conducted both online or onsite.
We provide trainings on the following solutions:
License Procurement
Clients purchasing license from MicroGenesis are entitled to the following value-added services.
Pre-installation assessment
Application rollout
Deployment of the license keys
Testing and validation of the environment
One-time enablement on the purchased solution
Online support during the license tenure
Installation, Upgradation & Migration
ALM installation tends to be complex and time consuming. We help you manage complex deployment of your applications based on the available infrastructure and recommended topologies and also ensure a backup mechanism is in place.
Some of the most commonly used topologies are,
Departmental topologies
Enterprise topologies
Federated topologies
Customized topologies
Consulting, Customization & Implementation
Our consulting team possess explicit knowledge from years of experience ensuring the solutions we provide are robust and pragmatic. We offer advisory and engineering services across domains in the form of
Setting up lifecycle-based project areas based on industry specific standards in the ALM applications
Customizing the project areas ELM applications as per the customer requirement to create custom artefacts, attributes, work item types, workflows, etc
Create UML, SysML based designs in Rhapsody and RSA
Design RPE based report templates to publish customer specific reports
Design dashboards and live widgets using JRS and publish the same in the ELM applications
Regular upgrade to latest versions and patches
Performance monitoring and tuning
Regular application and database backup monitoring
Enablement sessions for new team members
RTRT based TDP development and customization
DXL scripting for IBM Rational DOORS
Model Based System Engineering
We educate the customers on the numerous benefits and importance of Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) through training sessions and provide complete handholding to practise and implement MBSE for production level projects or PoC. Our solutions to practise MBSE include IMB Rational Rhapsody / IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody.
Plugins & Extensions
Plugin development is required enhance or extend an existing feature or capability of the ALM solutions and MicroGenesis team has a rich experience and expertise in developing and implementing plugins based on requirements provided by the customer for project specific needs.
Integrations Adapters
Cross-tool integration is critical whether you are trying to obtain end-to-end metrics or trying to integrate disparate tools to improve collaboration and reduce duplication of effort.
Our development has rich experience in developing integration adapters and bridges to integrate third party applications, home grown solutions, open source tools and legacy tools with ALM solutions.
Data Migration
Along with the implementation of the ALM solution, the need of migration data of the on-going projects from your home grown, open source or third-party applications to ALM solutions is vital.
Our team with rich experience in data migration can help you to perform the migration activity with no data loss.
IBM Platinum Business Partner
Rational DOORS
DOORS Next Generation
Rational Rhapsody
Rational Software Architect
Rational ClearQuest
Rational Team Concert
ClearCase
Rational Quality Manager
Rational Functional Tester
Rational Performance Tester
Rational Test Real Time
Build Forge
Rational Team Concert
Urban Code
Rational Reporting Engine
Jazz Reporting Service
Rational Engineering lifecycle manager
Global Configuration
SIEMENS Business Partner
Polarion ALM
Polarion RM
Polarion QA
Pure Variants Add-ons
ATLASSIAN Business Partner
Jira Software
Confluence
HipChat
Crucible
FishEye
BitBucket
Bamboo
Crowd
Connect with us. Let’s converse.
Empowering enterprises for over two decades by creating tangible value through technology experiences
News, Resources and Success Stories
