Agile solutions from MKS thrive in traditionally challenging environments for Agile adoption, such as very large enterprises or product-centric software development.
MKS can help you manage both Agile and non-Agile teams on the same platform, while rolling up data to provide consis¬tent views across portfolios and prod¬uct lines. MKS Integrity is an enterprise class application lifecycle management (ALM) platform that is easy to use and quick to implement, and can scale as projects become more complex. Enabling a simplified transition to agile processes while also managing traditional development processes, MKS Integrity offers unsurpassed process configurability that flexibly supports Lean development and hybrid Agile environments.
PRODUCT FEATURES
Requirements Management - When requirements meet user stories
MKS Integrity includes top-rated requirements management capabilities in addition to backlog and user story management. On large traditional projects, requirements can be split up into User Stories for teams using an Agile approach. All assets are related to one another with full traceability from originating requirement to delivered final product. Common reporting provides visibility across all teams (and methodologies).
Modeling & Simulation
Through integrations with leading modeling and simulation tools, MKS Integrity enables modeling to become an integral part of the overall application lifecycle. The integrated solution extends proven ALM capabilities to address the specific needs of a model-based development process. The end result is complete traceability among requirements, test cases, models, and other assets to ensure the accuracy of designs, address design changes in the models (and test cases) and ultimately reduces development cycle times. Adopting ALM into your model based development can eliminate wasted time for rework, enhance analysis of change, and ensure the delivered product is consistent with the current requirements and has enhanced quality.
Software Change & Configuration Management
MKS Integrity 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 & Quality Management
MKS Integrity offers scalable, enterprise-grade test management capabilities; transparency and context for testing is available ‘out of the box’ as a native part of the platform. Each User Story can have test suites of test cases pertaining to that story.
MKS Integrity includes an Automated Test Execution Framework to initiate and capture automated tests for review & analysis. Testing is related to the relevant requirements, user stories and other assets, enabling requirements-based testing. Unparalleled reuse capabilities (including parameterized testing) increase the agility of testing and reduce the lift to ensure high quality product is shipped. Integrating quality throughout the lifecycle is simplified when everyone is using the same solution.
Release Management
MKS Integrity 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.
USER BENEFITS
Day-to-day Agile project execution
MKS Integrity delivers a full set of capa¬bilities for successful execution of Agile projects. From initial project setup to the ongoing assignment and completion of tasks within each sprint, all aspects of the project benefit from automation, collaboration and full traceability across assets and activities. The net result is less time and effort spent on administration and more time for innovation.
True collaboration throughout the lifecycle
MKS Integrity delivers end-to-end application lifecycle management in an Agile context; team members in various roles (business analyst, developer, tester, etc.) interact with the same platform in a way consistent with each role’s needs. A common repository of assets and activities offers full versioning and control over all of those assets. Collaboration and change analysis is simplified when all contributors are notified (in real time) of changes to the user stories, code, test results and other assets in the system. Cross-functional Agile team members remain in the same system as they move from coding to testing and so on.
More than reports – real-time monitoring
With all assets and activities in a single unified platform, MKS Integrity’s Agile dashboards provide actionable real-time metrics into what is happening NOW, allowing your team to react to change as it occurs rather than wasting time on discovery and rework. Out of the box, MKS Integrity includes comprehensive role-specific dashboards (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer, Release Manager, etc.). Review release burndowns and burnups as well as other data needed for insight into projects, releases, trends, teams, stories, defects, tests, issues, requests and more. Dash¬boards can also present data across multiple projects.
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.
Scale across the enterprise
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
info@mks.com
www.mks.com
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