In recent years, in the high-tech industry, in response to rapid technological iterations and product upgrades, agile development processes are becoming the choice of more and more companies. Enterprises hope to obtain nonlinear innovation and competitive advantages based on their own linear development through the agile development model.
The Manifesto for Agile Development is to redefine the R&D process like this:
• Individuals and interactions trump processes and tools
• Working software is better than comprehensive documentation
• Customer cooperation is better than contract negotiation
• Responding to change is better than following a plan
The practice of agile development model is not easy. The first is the change of team concept and organizational change, and then these are not enough. In the agile process, the communication is highly efficient, fast and orderly. To do this, you also need a collaboration platform.
There are many different process variations in agile development, but its main process basically follows the following processes:
For the execution of these processes, Polarion provides powerful support tools.
1. Demand management: a powerful tool to support Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog management.
Polarion provides professional agile development requirements management templates, allowing Scrum Team to easily define Epic, User Story and more detailed Requirement, and organize the traceability relationship between requirements at all levels. The reuse of requirements, branching, online collaborative writing and online review make the communication between teams no longer blind spots, and avoid the problems of management out of control that often exist in the agile development process.
Although agile development does not emphasize documentation, sometimes your team still needs to collaborate with external organizations to update the Product Backlog iteratively. Polarion's unique online requirements document management tool integrates requirements data and document management, so that the maintenance of requirements documents no longer becomes a stumbling block to the team's "agile".
2. Plan management: Sprint plan management that supports rapid iteration
Polarion's plan management module was originally designed for agile development, emphasizing the flexible definition of the project plan structure according to the software's Sprint cycle, and the definition of the project's Sprint Backlog in each Sprint plan (Iteration).
Task Kanban is a commonly used tool in the agile development process. The system has built-in Kanban management tools, which can provide Kanban boards for each Sprint plan (Iteration) and major version plan (Version plan).
Of course, to control the execution of the project, tools such as earned value curve, burndown chart, Issue report, change statistics, test report, etc. are all indispensable. Polarion has preset enough project dashboards for users, but this is not enough. Polarion provides various report widgets, allowing users to configure the reports they need quickly, freely, and WYSIWYG. Its fully open source Dashboard architecture also provides the greatest degree of freedom for users' in-depth customization.
3. Test management: support the closed loop of testing, as well as continuous integration and continuous deployment
Finally, in the testing process, the most basic test case definition and traceability, test execution and result recording, and the initiation and tracking of test problems are naturally not a problem. In the pursuit of "agile" development process, continuous integration and continuous deployment are indispensable efficiency tools. Polarion provides interfaces with various CI&CD tools and platforms, allowing software development traceability to form an agile closed loop.
In the process of agile transformation, the introduction of an agile collaboration platform like Polarion will make the agile process more efficient and orderly. In this way, the implementation of agile methods and the transformation of the organization will be less uncertain.
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