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Select Scope Manager - Application - 2003 by Select Business Solutions

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. 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.

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

Getting the most from XP

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

'For software development, scope is the most important variable to be aware of... If you actively manage scope, you can provide managers and customers with control over cost, quality and time.'

PartNumbers: PC-514084-32991 514084-32991 PC-514084-39469 514084-39469

Publisher PartNumbers: SCOP-D

PurchaseOptions: Select Scope Manager 2003 1 Developer License , Select Scope Manager 2003 5 Developer License

Resources: Read about Select Scope Manager, Download the Select Scope Manager evaluation on to your computer - Expires after 30 days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Application

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 97, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0, Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual J++ 1.1, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, CodeGear C++ 5.0 (formerly Borland), CodeGear C++ (formerly Borland), C++Builder 6, C++Builder 5, C++Builder 4, C++Builder 3, JBuilder 7, JBuilder 6, Oracle Database 9i, Sun ONE Studio 4 (Formerly FORTE for Java), Sun ONE Studio 5 (Formerly FORTE Compiler Collection)

Product Class: Component Development Tools

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