MKS Integrity for the Agile Development Environment Whitepaper: Real Reuse for Requirements Whitepaper: Agile Development Doesn't Have to Mean Fragile Enterprise Process Webcast April 2nd: Scaling Scrum Across the Enterprise: What’s the Secret? For more information, contact MKS.

MKS Integrity for Agile is an application lifecycle management (ALM) platform that is easy to use and quick to implement, and can scale as projects become more complex. It can be easily configured to implement your flavor of Agile, rather than force the adoption of a vendor’s interpretation.

Strong support for parallel development and refactoring, combined with tight coupling to process workflows, allows team members to collaborate effectively with improved velocity. Real time visibility into code changes, along with real-time metrics and automated burn-down charts via dashboards provide the information needed to make timely decisions and rapidly deliver incremental improvements.

PRODUCT FEATURES

Requirements Management
MKS Integrity enables organizations to capture and validate software requirements, link them to downstream development and testing activities, and manage their completion through a unified process across the lifecycle.

MKS Integrity goes beyond traditional authoring and traceability providing requirements change management and new capabilities for requirements reuse which enables the business to improve agility, visibility and to minimize software project risk.

Software Change & Configuration Management
MKS Integrity for SCCM allows development teams to collaborate effectively and make well informed decisions, by providing visibility across all activities and artifacts in the application development lifecycle reducing the need to resolve conflict and the likelihood of wasted effort.

MKS Integrity provides powerful workflow-based change management that can be consistently applied across all disciplines of the application development lifecycle. It automatically provides traceability across the entire lifecycle and reliably supports a large numbers of users, across geographically distributed sites, on a wide variety of platforms and development tools.

Test Management
MKS Integrity for Test Management captures software test plans, enables test case development and execution, logs test results and corresponding software defects, and directly links them to software requirements providing a closed loop of coverage and traceability across the application.

MKS Integrity goes beyond traditional test case authoring products by including change management capabilities to ensure complete testing coverage despite ever-changing business requirements and provides unique capabilities for reuse of test artifacts to improve business agility

Release Management
MKS Integrity for Release Management coordinates and manages the deployment of software changes into the production application environment, helping organizations reduce risk by automating all manual, tedious and error-prone tasks that can disrupt production systems.

Unlike other offerings, MKS Integrity enforces a staged promotion model to ensure all changes are released in a repeatable and consistent fashion, reducing the likelihood of production failures while improving audit performance and compliance. Unrivaled support for change rollback and restoration also ensure that failed deployments do not result in a partial or incomplete software change.

Portfolio Management
MKS Integrity for Portfolio Management enables organizations to harvest valuable metrics, charts and trending information from daily application development transactions and processes.

MKS Integrity has built its portfolio capability as an extension of the application lifecycle. Data is mined directly from the daily activities of team members, bubbling up to dashboards, reports and charts displaying metrics and trends, enabling managers and business owners to make timely decisions and manage by exception.

USER BENEFITS

Process Flexibility
MKS Integrity implements a proven, powerful process engine which can support an unlimited number of methodologies. Processes can be defined per project, or shared across multiple projects or departments. With MKS Integrity, process definition is a simple, intuitive configuration process that can be done via the graphical interface of the MKS Integrity administration client. Solution templates based on a variety of methodologies provide starting points to get a team up and running quickly. Unlike other tools that focus on Agile project management, MKS Integrity goes beyond project management to provide out of the box notification, powerful rule-based process automation, reports, charts and dashboards with drill-down capability.

Built In Transparency
MKS Integrity makes it easy to navigate between user stories, tasks, code, tests and defects with its single, common repository that stores all development artifacts and records all development activities, along with its rich relationship model. Rule-based process automation can enforce best practices such as requiring that code changes be associated with a task, or that user stories have tests defined to validate them. Role-based user interface configuration allows access to all artifacts and processes without overwhelming the user with functionality.

Real Time Visibility
Some solutions take a data warehousing approach to reporting, where the report engine is a separate tool that works off a copy of the operational data. MKS Integrity reporting and searching is part of a single tool, and works directly off the live operational data to provide real-time status. Developer workspace views (Sandboxes) are dynamic, showing not only changes committed by others but users' intent to make changes via lock icons with real-time notification of the intent to change.

MKS Integrity for the Agile Development Environment Whitepaper: Real Reuse for Requirements Whitepaper: Agile Development Doesn't Have to Mean Fragile Enterprise Process Webcast April 2nd: Scaling Scrum Across the Enterprise: What’s the Secret? For more information, contact MKS.

Support for Refactoring & Parallel Development
MKS Integrity provides first class support for refactoring operations, with moves and renames handled as distinct operations, rather than being recorded as drops and adds, and change packages simplifying the job of managing related sets of changes such as complex refactoring can produce.

In order to maximize the productivity of each iteration, users must be able to work in parallel without impacting one another, yet integrate all their work into a single deliverable configuration by the end of the iteration. MKS Integrity, with its built-in support for configuration-level branching and powerful change propagation functionality, simplifies parallel development and reduces the risk of unresolved conflicts.

Enterprise Scalability
Enterprise organizations looking to adopt aspects of Agile are also looking to apply these processes and practices across large teams or groups of teams, and to provide high level visibility at the department, business unit and enterprise levels. Tools designed for traditional Agile approaches are aimed at small teams and typically do not have a track record of enterprise scalability. MKS Integrity, as an industry leading ALM solution, has a proven track record of scaling to meet the needs of the largest enterprise organizations.

COMPANY INFORMATION

MKS is the global application lifecycle management (ALM) technology leader, enabling software engineering and IT organizations to seamlessly manage their worldwide software development activities.

With our flagship product, MKS Integrity, MKS offers support for all software development activities through a single enterprise application, resulting in better global collaboration and higher productivity. Manage any process from Agile to Waterfall with a single platform and achieve complete visibility across the organization.

MKS supports customers worldwide with offices across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact us at 1.800.613.7535 or sales@mks.com.

MKS Inc.
410 Albert St.
Waterloo, ON
Canada N2L 3V3
www.mks.com

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