Select Scope Manager

XP is based around rapid decision-making and development feedback. This can be difficult to achieve without an accurate quantitative view of development. Select Scope Manager automates XP project tracking through Story and Task scope management.

Select Scope Manager enables stories, ideas, documents and analysis to be logged. This then allows development teams to estimate and detail the tasks required. 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. Task sheets, project plans, timesheets, velocities, work breakdown charts and project roadmaps are all generated automatically.

Select Scope Manager(TM) helps developers automate their XP development, speeding the delivery of business critical applications.

• High speed XP Story creation
• XP planning wizard
• Microsoft Project plan generation
• Task assignment
• Task tracking
• Negligible developer impact
• Remaining Work, Velocity and Overrun calculation
• Electronic Story and Metric repository
• Support for offline working

You need to optimize your XP development to deliver applications fast, to stay ahead of the competition

• Firstly, Stories are lodged in Select Scope Manager
• The development teams then estimate the stories
• Stories are selected and assigned to iterations and releases, based on resources and risks
• Tasks are then added and estimated
• Each Story then follows its own (defined) development process
• During the development, progress is monitored and scope is adjusted accordingly
• Task sheets, project plans, timesheets, velocities, work breakdown charts and project roadmaps are all generated automatically

Select Scope Manager enables you to manage XP software development for a single programmer or a large organization, with widely distributed development teams.

With Select Scope Manager you can:

• Create XP Stories extremely quickly with 'wizard' assistance
• Optionally create XP Stories from Select Component Architect(TM) or Rose Use Cases
• Understand scope scenarios when planning your iterations
• Automatically generate Microsoft Project plans using a variety of load factors
• Assign Tasks to your team members
• Track Tasks, to show what your developers are working on and identify unassigned Tasks
• Keep the developer impact to a minimum with streamlined logging of progress
• Clearly monitor Remaining Work, Velocity and Overrun
• Backup and recover your repository of Stories and Metrics
• Work offline and update your progress automatically, when you return to the office

XP development can be managed, without impacting the performance of your current highly skilled staff.