Single Point Solution for Project Management, Task Management & Bug Management

At the early stages of beginning a new project, teams plan to take a single point solution such as an issue tracker to manage bugs and tasks. They usually start with a free tool or choose a low cost commercial issue tracker. Initially, it helps the team to manage bugs, tasks and achieve higher quality of operations.

Later, the team starts thinking about how to manage changes, and how to ensure that these changes go to their releases, together with the matching release notes and the right version of the ever changing product documentation. When they realize that an issue tracker alone is not sufficient to satisfy all their needs, they start introducing new components: wiki and document sharing for spreadsheets, release note documents and downloadable packages. Or they just check-in all these to their version control system, together with the source code. At this point the team feels happy with finding solutions to their immediate problems.

In fact, they have just created isolated information silos and needs for future integrations. Even if the team has actually reached higher productivity, their time spent with integrating and maintaining their isolated single point solutions becomes a significant hidden cost factor.

Even worse, as the project goes forward, and gets more recognition at higher organization levels, project managers and corporate IT staff will not have controlled access to critical business data in the way they need.

Consider this also from customers’ viewpoint. At the time of the project delivery, customers in the Automotive, Healthcare, Defense or similar verticals driving CMMI, ISO, Spice or other initiatives, will typically ask for traceability information to comply their audits. What happens? Enormous costly manual work begins to find information in isolated issue trackers, shared folders, emails, version control repositories and on all change history …

Intland’s answer to this is codeBeamer, the award winning integrated Application Lifecycle Management platform which helps from the first steps until the release.

Project Management, Bug & Issue Tracking with codeBeamer

• Track Tasks, Bugs, Requirements, Feature- and Change Requests, Tests and Custom Issue Types codeBeamer provides intelligent out-of-the-box solution for the most typical issue types. In case you want to go beyond the built-in types, you can freely do so by modifying existing types, adding totally new types or deriving custom types via inheritance.
  A rich set of standard and custom issue fields help you to describe an issue as precise as possible. Parent-child issues, issue field dependencies and calculated fields save you efforts and prevent mistakes.
• Flexible Issue Workflows Issue- and change management workflows can be customized to support your own organization specific processes. Both standard and custom process templates can then be easily reused in new projects.
• Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid or Custom Due to its flexible nature, codeBeamer allows implementing any type of high level methodology for your team, ranging from traditional waterfall to agile approaches and anything in between. Doing agile? The ScrumWizard plugin implements Kanban and Scrum on the top of codeBeamer.
• Dashboards for Executives, Managers, Tech Leads, Developers and Testers Configure as many "information radiators" as you wish, each view custom tailored for its target audience. Deliver what really matters, hide the noise and do it in realtime via the wiki-based dashboard approach.
• Realtime Progress Reports & Activity Streams codeBeamer gives quick insight to the momentary state of your projects, and instantly answers all "who is doing what and when" and "where are we now" questions.
• Fine-grained Access Control codeBeamer provides enterprise grade security, based on user accounts, roles, groups and a granular system of permissions. It also integrates with your LDAP directories.
• Escalation Management, Emails Alerts & Notifications Automated notification messages help you to make sure that all work is getting done within time and budget, critical problems are solved as fast as possible, and no support question remains unanswered. Reach maximum efficiency and total customer satisfaction.
• 100% Web-based, Scalable, Extendable codeBeamer is 100% web-based. It easily scales to hundreds of users, making it possible to involve not your organization only, but to provide controlled access for your partners, vendors and customers, as well. Using its API (Application Programming Interface), codeBeamer can be easily extended, customized and integrated with your own applications, third party tools and services.
• Low Cost of Ownership codeBeamer is quick to adapt. Administrative and IT infrastructure costs are minimal.