TeamVision: a one-stop R&D efficiency management platform under the concept of continuous delivery

With the continuous development of technology, continuous delivery has become the core concept in the field of software development. In order to help enterprises and development teams improve R&D efficiency and realize full-process management from business requirements to product launch, we launched an open source project management software - TeamVision.

This article will introduce the core functions of the TeamVision platform in detail, and combine the concept of continuous delivery to show how to use TeamVision to achieve an overall improvement in R&D efficiency.

1. Collaboration on business needs

Under the concept of continuous delivery, requirements management is a crucial part. TeamVision provides teams with an efficient business requirements collaboration platform to better track, manage and optimize requirements. The specific functions are as follows:

Demand tracking and priority management: Through the demand tracking function, the team can visually view the real-time status of the demand and make adjustments according to the priority to ensure the reasonable allocation of resources.
Decomposition of requirements and assignment of tasks: TeamVision supports the decomposition of requirements into multiple subtasks, and assigns a person in charge for each task, so that team members can clearly understand their scope of responsibility, and can set priorities, deadlines, labels and other information for tasks. In addition, the task kanban function is also provided. The task kanban is a visualization tool in agile development, which can display the progress of tasks at different stages. In TeamVision, the task board is divided into multiple columns such as to-do, in-progress, and completed to help the team quickly understand the overall status of the project.
Requirements change management: During the project, the requirements may change. TeamVision provides a complete requirement change management process, including change application, review and approval, to ensure the controllability and traceability of the requirement change process.

2. Test management

Continuous delivery emphasizes maintaining high quality throughout the development cycle. TeamVision's test management capabilities will help teams improve software quality and reduce defects. Key features include:

Test plan and use case management: Teams can create test plans and write test cases in TeamVision, ensuring the integrity and consistency of the testing process.
Defect Tracking and Fixing : When a defect is found, it can be recorded in TeamVision and assigned to the appropriate developer for fixing. In addition, the repair status of defects can be tracked to ensure that problems are resolved in a timely manner.
Test report and quality measurement: TeamVision automatically generates test reports, summarizes and analyzes test results, so as to help the team understand the software quality status and take corresponding measures for improvement.
Document Management: Team members can upload and share documents in TeamVision. In addition, TeamVision also supports document version control, which is convenient for team members to track the change history of documents. TeamVision allows administrators to set access permissions for documents to ensure only authorized team members can view and edit documents. Team members can directly edit documents online in TeamVision and see other members' edited content in real time. This helps to improve the efficiency of teamwork.

3. Product management

Artifact management is a key link in the continuous delivery process, which can ensure the reliability and traceability of software. TeamVision's artifact management capabilities include:

Artifact version management: Through version control, the team can manage each version of the artifact in TeamVision to ensure that a specific version of the artifact can be quickly found when needed.
Artifact Warehouse Management: TeamVision provides a centralized artifact warehouse for teams to store, retrieve and share artifacts.
Artifact audit and traceability: TeamVision supports the audit and traceability of artifacts, ensuring that the team has complete visibility into the use and distribution of artifacts.

4. Code and configuration management

Continuous delivery requires teams to strictly manage code and configuration. TeamVision provides a complete set of code and configuration management functions, including:

Code warehouse management: TeamVision supports integration with mainstream code warehouses (such as Git and SVN) to facilitate team management of source code.
Code review and quality inspection: With the code review function, the team can review the code before merging to ensure code quality. In addition, TeamVision also integrates code quality inspection tools, such as SonarQube, to perform static analysis and security inspection on the code.
Configuration management: Centralized configuration management helps teams manage configuration information of projects in a unified manner to ensure configuration consistency and security.

5. Construction and environment

Continuous delivery emphasizes automated construction and environment management to improve delivery efficiency. TeamVision provides extensive functional support in this regard:

Automated construction: TeamVision supports integration with common construction tools (such as Jenkins and Maven) to realize automated construction, thereby shortening the construction cycle and improving delivery efficiency.
Build history management: Teams can view the build history in TeamVision and trace problems during the build process, thereby improving build quality.
Environment management: TeamVision supports multi-environment management, helping teams easily switch between different development, testing and production environments, ensuring the stability and reliability of software in each environment.

6. Deployment and Monitoring

The ultimate goal of continuous delivery is to achieve fast and stable product launch. TeamVision provides a full suite of deployment and monitoring capabilities to support this goal:

Automated deployment: TeamVision supports integration with mainstream deployment tools (such as Kubernetes and Docker) to realize automated deployment, reduce the risk of human error, and improve deployment efficiency.
Deployment history and audit: The team can view the deployment history in TeamVision, trace problems during the deployment process, and ensure the controllability of the deployment process.
System monitoring and alerting: TeamVision integrates monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to help teams monitor system performance and resource usage in real time. In addition, it also supports custom alarm rules to ensure that the team can detect and deal with problems in a timely manner when abnormalities occur.

7. Lean thinking and R&D effectiveness measurement

Guided by lean thinking, TeamVision helps the team optimize the entire R&D process by measuring the three dimensions of delivery quality, delivery efficiency and delivery capability:

Delivery quality measurement: Through quality indicators such as requirement change rate, defect density, and test coverage, evaluate whether the team can ensure the quality of the software while meeting user needs.
Delivery efficiency measurement: Through efficiency indicators such as demand lead time, demand delivery throughput, construction time, and deployment frequency, evaluate whether the team has improved work efficiency in the process of achieving rapid delivery.
Delivery capability measurement: Through building success rate, automated test duration, team member skill matrix, knowledge sharing and other capability indicators, evaluate whether the team has sufficient capacity reserves when responding to changing market demands and technical challenges.

in conclusion

In my opinion, R&D effectiveness is a general term for the R&D organization's ability to solve problems, the quality of problem solving, and the efficiency of problem solving. Mainly through the improvement of organizational process mechanism, platform tools, and individual capabilities to improve efficiency. Performance problems are caused by the complexity and disorder of software systems and engineering systems . This is determined by the characteristics and inertia of the R&D organization. It is not obvious in the early stage of business development, but it is more prominent in the period of business pressure. Therefore, consistency and order are the keys to solving the complexity of software systems. TeamVision, as the tool platform we built, can better connect all links and processes in the entire product development life cycle, greatly improve the convenience of operation for personnel in each link, and improve the quality of process deliverables through quality standards and quality control, thus Improve the delivery quality of the entire product. TeamVision provides good support for the high-quality and high-efficiency operation of the process, and is a good means of establishing and maintaining consistency.

In the increasingly competitive software industry, continuous delivery and R&D performance have become the key factors that determine the success or failure of an enterprise. TeamVision, as an excellent open source project management software, was born to meet this need. As an open source one-stop R&D performance management platform, TeamVision takes the concept of continuous delivery as the core and provides enterprises with the ability to manage the entire process from business requirements to product launch. Through the optimization of core links such as business requirements collaboration, test management, code and configuration management, construction and environment, deployment and monitoring, it can greatly help enterprises improve R&D efficiency.

If you are a technician who is interested in TeamVision and R&D efficiency, welcome to visit the official website and join us. Let us practice the concept of continuous delivery, embrace open source, and jointly help improve R&D efficiency!

If you are an enterprise or team leader and encounter problems such as slow R&D progress, delayed project delivery, low teamwork efficiency, poor communication, lack of comprehensive data analysis, and inability to make scientific decisions, please visit the official website Learn more and try it online. Our platform can be applied to companies of all types and sizes. Whether you are a startup or a large company, we can provide your team with a one-stop solution.

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