Concerto ALM — Application Lifecycle Management

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Plan and manage your project

fulfill customer requirements
precisely distribute work and resources
predict whether your plan is feasible to meet deadlines

Monitor and manage progress

have instant access to the current project(s) status and evidence of Risks

Comply

follow project / organization policies
adhere best industry practices
fulfill contractual obligations

Certificate

provide traceability to fulfill certification criteria (ISO-x, FDA, DO-178, IEC-x, etc.)
decrease certification cost
support standards like MISRA, JSF, etc.

Improve

optimize products and process based on historical data (post-mortem analysis)
increase efficiency and performance and utilization
track down where your cost is located

What is Concerto?

Concerto is a complete Software Development Lifecycle Management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently.

Concerto consists of the following components:

Project Center to manage project development
Report Center to data mine from multiple sources, and provide online project status based on predefined metrics
Policy Center to flexibly define customer expectations and demands, regulatory environments, etc., and implement into development process
Team Server to share various project-related artifacts among team members

What methodologies are supported?

Concerto fully supports Agile and iterative approach (Scrum, XP, etc.) as well as more traditional methodologies (i.e. waterfall). Concerto is the answer to main pain points realized during Agile projects development, such as:

capturing requirements
lack of automation tests
people spread across projects
support agile and non-agile projects

What Concerto provides you?

Concerto allows you to keep an eye on end to end development process, and address key reasons for the failure of projects, whether it is incomplete planning, poor requirements, lack of tracking, issues during in-field phase, and finally poor quality.

Concerto provides full traceability of your project artifacts (requirements, tasks, defects) by monitoring changes in the code, time spent and test ran against each artifact.

Additionally, Concerto helps you implement best industry practices and standards, end to end verification and validation, control code quality, as well as build, test, deploy and maintain your final product.

With the comprehensive scorecard that Concerto provides, you can track performance and utilization, identify what parts of your process could be improved, manage risks, check whether your team is following process in the right way. Based on that data collected from one release to another, you can optimize your process and improve productivity and quality of your products.

What about existing infrastructure?

Unlike other products, Concerto does not try to replace your existing software development infrastructure. Rather, it integrates with its elements: source control, bug tracking and requirements management systems, as well as your Parasoft testing solutions and third party tools.

Benefits

For Leadership:

On-line view of the current project(s) status and trends
Instant deep dive and post mortem analysis (easy access to historical data)
Information about performance, utilization and costs
Risk management and change management

For Development Team:

Common collaboration platform for whole development team (PM's, analytics, developers, QA, tech writers)
At any time team is on this same page (on-line project status)
Streamlines development workflow by automated tasks distribution and practically eliminating reporting on progress
Clear view of the backlog
Easy integration with external development systems (requirements systems, bug tracking systems, source repositories, IDEs)
Full support for QA and testing activities (planning, tracking, automated and manual tests, regression, etc.)
Change-based testing - enables QA team to focus on testing only affected functionality

For Organization:

Common set of KPI's for whole organization
Common development framework
Continuous process improvement (support for CMMI)
No geographical limitations — full support for follow-the-sun approach (24/7)
Easy adoption for the best industry practices and standards: Agile, SCRUM, XP, code review, coding standards, static analysis, etc.
Full support for industry standards (ISO, FDA, ...)
Gathers all important data from various existing sources into one place, providing clear visibility into trends and behaviors

Components supported by Concerto

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Solaris

Source repositories

AccuRev, Borland StarTeam, CVS, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, MKS Source Integrity, Perforce P4 IBM ClearCase, Serena Dimensions, Serena Version Manager (PVCS) CLI and PCLI, Subversion, Telelogic CM Synergy