Requirements Management / Windows Vista Development Tools (Dev Tools & IT Utilities)

Manage software requirements and author specifications throughout the life of your application as part of an iterative process. AppLife DNA helps you focus squarely on identified requirements, write iterative functional specifications, and effectively communication change over the duration of your project. With AppLife DNA, you can rapidly produce a “living” requirement specification document on-the-fly during any stage of your application development project. AppLife DNA advances iterative software development by transforming requirements analysis and specification authoring from a task to be completed, into a continuous iterative process.

Requirements management and collaboration. PACE is an information management system, with integrated requirements management, document management and more. PACE allows you to capture, analyze, develop, trace and manage information throughout the product lifecycle. PACE was designed to work with, and have a familiar, intuitive and similar look and feel to the tools that are already in use in your organization on a daily basis -Web browsers, Microsoft Office, etc. This means the training for new users is minimal, and teams readily adopt PACE, as they exploit all the benefits of a formal requirements engineering solution without the overhead of learning another complex, custom interface.

A complete Requirements Definition and Management in an all-in-one solution. IRQA is a Requirements Definition & Management solution, specifically designed to support the Requirements process. IRQA will allow you to capture, analyse, specify, model and trace requirements in the same tool. IRQA provides the functionality to not only manage requirements and produce a specification but also the capability to put these requirements into context. IRQA promotes and formalizes the communication between customer and supplier and within the development team. A solution specification can be created for the system and any subsystems, fostering a better understanding of the requirements that in turn, improves design quality and minimizes rework at any level of decomposition.

Collaborative lifecycle management solution. IBM Rational Team Concert Developer for Workgroups is a breakthrough collaborative lifecycle management solution designed for small and medium-sized teams of up to 50 developers. With built-in support for agile, waterfall or custom processes, developers using Eclipse or Visual Studio get all the integrated capabilities they need to consistently deliver software at lower cost, faster and with better collaboration across distributed teams. IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) Developer for Workgroups has a powerful web ui, which brings planning, automated dashboard status reporting and work item updating to a wider audience. RTC has its own fully integrated source control, work item tracking, build management, planning and project tracking capabilities, but also works with open source tools like Subversion and Git. Importers are also included for Bugzilla, CSV files, Subversion and CVS. Rational Team Concert Developer for Workgroups can help you reduce infrastructure costs by sharing a single server for both Visual Studio (.NET) and Eclipse (Java) development teams.

Integrated Lifecycle Manager. Rommana is a software lifecycle management solution which supports the following processes; Requirement Management, Test Management, Project Management, Use Case Management, Issue Management and Change and Release Management. Rommana is a fully integrated web based solution allowing project teams to access project data from any place using Internet Explorer.

Add Automated Process Management for Extreme Programming (XP). Select Scope Manager helps developers automate their XP development, speeding the delivery of business critical applications. Using XP (Extreme Programming) significantly reduces development cycle time and costs. Select Scope Manager enables stories, ideas, documents and analysis to be logged. This then allows development teams to estimate and detail the tasks required. with Select Business Solutions (SelectBS) Scope Manager, Stories can then be selected and assigned to releases, based on resources and risks. Each Story then follows its own (defined) development process (each development process is defined on a project by project basis). During the development, progress is monitored and scope is adjusted accordingly by Select Scope Manager. Select Scope Manager also generates automatically Task sheets, project plans, timesheets, velocities, work breakdown charts and project roadmaps. Buy Select Scope Manager and obtain free of charge 1 Year of Maintenance including all Select Scope Manager Upgrades and updates.

Enterprise-Scale Model Driven toolset for Service and Component-Based Design, Management and Deployment. Select Solution Factory is an integrated set of products and modeling tools for Component Based Development (CBD), design review, service/component management, requirements management, code generation and reuse. Select Solution Factory includes support for Relational Databases, XML, .NET (including Visual Basic, C++, Visual C#), IBM WebSphere, WSDL and Java. Select Solution Factory ensures that organizations leverage service and component based development and deliver systems that meet evolving business needs. Select Business Solutions (SelectBS) Select Solution Factory streamlines your application development cycle, producing the systems you need to gain competitive edge. Buy Select Solution Factory and obtain free of charge 1 Year of Maintenance including all Select Solution Factory Upgrades and updates.

Tools for improving application quality using the Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM). Select SSADM completely and accurately describes all application deliverables so managers can significantly improve project plans and track real progress. Select SSADM also offers flexible facilities that encourage managers to customize the methodology to satisfy the demands of specific projects. Select Business Solutions (SelectBS) Select SSADM completely supports the full range of structured techniques described in SSADM4+. Buy Select SSADM and obtain free of charge 1 Year of Maintenance including all Select SSADM Upgrades and updates.

Create user interface designs and interactive prototypes in 3 easy steps without writing a single line of code. GUI Design Studio is a tool which allows you to create screen designs and application prototypes quickly and easily before putting time and effort into coding. Get early feedback and acceptance of designs to dramatically reduce rework, costs and project risks. Try alternative designs, iron out usability issues, find missing requirements and identify areas of difficulty, all before committing to implementation. Interactive prototypes are easily shared. Specification documentation generated in HTML, PDF and RTF formats. Supports Windows, Web and custom applications including Ribbon Bar designs.