Seminar: select an ALM solution

Select an ALM solution to manage your projects © Enalean 2012 www.enalean.com

Select an ALM solution

to manage your software projects

Automate software developments

Orchestrate processes

Leverage open source software engineering


AGENDA

1. Presentation of Enalean

2. What is the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

3. ALM’s Must Have Tools– Demonstration of Tuleap

4. Positioning of ALM solutions on the market

5. Why you should choose an open-source solution for your ALM?


Solutions for collaboration

and software engineering


Enalean’s expertise

• Software provider: we develop the Open Source ALM Suite Tuleap

• Services

Support with SLA: Enalean provides guarantees and commitments to maintain operating conditions of Tuleap for customers

Open Governance/Roadmap: Customers define together with Enalean and other customers the priorities and developments roadmap of Tuleap.

Support for developments: Bringing to customer to the highest possible skill level and independence is also Enalean commitment on Tuleap (coaching customer’s developer teams, code review, integration of the contributions, etc.)


Enalean’s Team

A true experience on Software Engineering

A pragmatic approach on deployment and change management

Open-source enthusiasts with strong technical skills


Some customers

STMicroelectronics: - Deployment of Tuleap for the whole R&D worldwide - 15 000 users - 2000 projects

Orange: - Global deployment in R&D for thousands of users

ST-Ericsson: - Deployment of Tuleap for joint-projects with external partners

and customers


System integration Specific developments Training Cloud services

Support SLA Open Governance Support to Developments

Community of Users Community of Contributors

A partnership for a complete ALM offer


WHAT’S IS THE APPLICATION

LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT


Application Lifecycle Management Definition

• The continuous process of managing the life of an application,

• …from the initial idea to the delivery (or the end of the project),

• …involving all the stakeholders wherever they are,

• …with compliance with enterprise processes and securities policies

ALM Solution = Software Engineering solution = Software Forge

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is just one part of ALM > ALM has to go forward


Project Managers

Architects

Developers

Customers/Users

Business Analyst Chief Technical Officer

Quality Assurance

ALM : coordinate people, process and information in an iterative cycle


Peole who asks Executives, Users, etc

People who develops (developer, tester, etc.)

People who monitors Project managers, QA,

Product Owner, etc.

What customers really need?

Do we apply security policies and processes?

Are we in line with the committed schedule

Which artefacts are assigned to me?

Does this release matches requirements?

Did my co-workers already face similar

issues?

How can we improve next release?

Which tests passed and failed ?

Specify

Organize Plan

Develop

Manage

Test Manage knowledge

Are all customers support requests

managed?

ALM: make people work together

Comply

Maintain

Deliver


Some figures: 1, 100, 10 000

Most of companies are here

10 000

100

1


Software is everywhere

– Embedded softwares in products

– Products designed with softwares

Context: High Tech Industry

ALM, a key asset for innovation


Context High Tech Industry

Benefits with ALM

- Embrace business specificities, in all sectors… - …as well as corporate processes

XP

Kanban

UP

Lean Waterfall

Lean Six Sigma



Java

PHP

Web

C++

UML

Context: Distributed teams, many people involved, several projects, different technologies

Developers

Providers

Partners

Customers

Project Managers



Context Distributed teams Many people involved Several projects Different technologies

Benefits with ALM

- Share information securely

- Monitor project progress in real-time - Improve productivity

- Facilitate collaboration/communication between

members and partners



Task management

Configuration management

Document management

Social collaboration tools

Release management

Test management

Requirement management

Change management

Risk management

Incident Management

Build management

Project management

Usual context: Important number of non-integrated software, High maintenance costs

Etc.



Benefits with ALM

- Integrated solution, one-in-one, ready-to-use: collection of all the needed tools in one single integrated platform

- Decrease your Total Cost of Ownership - Improve teams efficiency - Guarantee traceability on changes

Context

Important number of software

No integration

Maintenance costs



Context: More quality requirements, Requirement to normalize processes

V-model



Context

More quality requirements

Need to normalize processes

Benefits with ALM

- Improve traceability and visibility - Improve quality of deliveries - Favour Lean & Agile approaches - Improve time to market



Must-Have Tools

for successful ALM

(Application Lifecycle Management)


CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT

Access Permissions Project Template

Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests

Continous Integration: Hudson/Jenkins

DOCUMENTATION MANAGEMENT

Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Tracking System for all artifacts :

requirements, bugs, tasks, support requests.

RELEASES MANAGEMENT

Release & Delivery manager

Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools Coordinate people, process and information in an iterative cycle


CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASES MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: change management


Objective : track changes from all team members on all project items (artefacts) Made with a tracking system or tracker Artefacts : - requirements, - risks, - tasks, - user stories, - bugs, - Backlog, - Support request, - contacts, …



Track and Trace everything: trackers



CHANGE MANAGEMENT

-Bugs-


CHANGE MANAGEMENT

-Tasks-


CHANGE MANAGEMENT

-Requirements


CHANGE MANAGEMENT

User Story


Easily tailor trackers for your business



Customize & Create trackers for your business



CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASES MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: project management


Objectives:

- Organize and monitor projects

- Apply and comply to corporate policies

- Define, implement, and track development processes



Knowing what you have to do in real-time: PERSONAL dashboard

- Projects the user is member of. Here, the user is a member of one project but he could belong to several ones. - Artefacts the user submitted and the ones assigned to the user - Some graphs the user decided to view in his dashboard to get real-time progress of projects: Gantt chart, Bug status, etc. - Documents the user has to review and those requested for approval - Deliveries the user is monitoring



Activated Tools for this project

Project Members

Continuous Integration Status

Real-time, aggregated, cross-project view of status : PROJECT dashboard


Graphics

Latest news of the project

Latest file releases

Latest commits


Plan tasks and monitor project progress: realtime reports & activity streams



Working with Agile approaches



Applying security and confidentiality rules

Fine-grained management of permissions : WHO can do WHAT?

- Apply to user groups (developers, project managers, external partners, customers,

marketing service, etc.)

- Apply to every tool of the Suite

Must have: Integration with enterprise directory (LDAP or Active Directory)



Apply permissions to user group



Enforce consistency of your business development processes

Workflow: process automation

Define flow control, rules for each step, required input and output information



Define transition conditions: Workflow in tracker



ENTERPRISE/TEAM PROCESS

> Do all projects (have to) apply the same process ?

> Can each project follow its own process/methodology?

How can we tailor the tool for our business?

Project Templates : Save all the project configuration to reuse it

- Reuse activated tool and their configuration

- Reuse documentation structure and mandatory documents

- Reuse user groups and their access rights

+ Projects are structured to apply the selected method

+ Creation of new project is faster and easier


…


CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASES MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: configuration management


Objectives:

- Develop and deliver together under control

- Store and track versions and source code revisions

- Compare and trace

- Guarantee consistency

Tools such as CSV, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, etc.



Centralized Version Control System: CVS, Subversion > only one repository + make version management easier Distributed Revision Control System: Git, Mercurial > Peer-to-peer approach > Several repositories > Centralized work + users can work even when not connected to a network + most operations much faster (no network involved) - cloning of a repository is slower than a centralized checkout



Browse Subversion repos



View source code version differences



CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASES MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: Quality Assurance


Objective: Speed up delivery of software projects Increase quality of deliverables Reduce technical debt

How? integrating changes to the development project continuously and automatically automatically run all checks available detect most breaking issues whenever they are introduced Since the changes are small, it is much easier to isolate and fix the root cause



Continuous integration: Hudson/Jenkins

+ Detect and fix integration problems continuously

+ Early warning of conflicting changes

+ Constant availability of a "current" build for testing & demo

+ Customers and partners can follow the latest developments in a transparent way




View and assess test execution runs and results



Add Hudson/Jenkins widget on dashboard to see at a glance continuous integration status


CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASES MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: Documentation Management


Objectives : - Centralize, store and organize project documentation - Facilitate collaborative editing



Create new document : office, pdf, png, embedded doc, wiki page, links, etc.

Classify it, Manage access permissions



Run personalized searches in documents




Instant view of document status with document dashboard • Follow project maturity • Track process status


WIKI : Write document in collaboration – Track changes



CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASE MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: Release management


Objective: publish project deliveries: files, documents, images, videos…



Create new release



Write release notes and links project items : artefacts, source code etc.



CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASES MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: Social Collaboration Tools


Objectives :

Facilitates remote work and enable team members to keep update on what going

Drastically improve efficiency, productivity and team spirit




Discuss in real-time with team members, customers & partners with instant messaging

Note cross-links



Discuss ideas in forums with flexible subscription and management

Note cross-links



Keep updated on project activity with News widget on dashboard


CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

CVS

Subversion

GIT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT


Workflow

Dashboard

Statistics

Graphics

QA

Tests



Document manager

Wiki

CHANGE MANAGEMENT



RELEASES MANAGEMENT


Release Notes

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

Instant Messaging

Distribution Lists

Forums

News

Cross-links

ALM Must-Have Tools: Get traceability > Cross-links



Traceability: the ability to trace all changes occured during the life of an application component up to its origin.


…to Subversion…

From Release manager…





…to Subversion…

…to Bug Tracker


From Release manager… …to Subversion…

…to Bug Tracker…



Du Gestionnaire de livrables… …to Subversion…

…to Bug Tracker… …to Task Tracker…




Du Gestionnaire de livrables… …to Subversion…

…to Bug Tracker… …to Task Tracker …to Instant Messaging…



…to Bug Tracker… …to Task Tracker…

…to Document Manager…

Traceability : example of a software code audit

…to Instant Messaging…

…to Subversion…

…to a Build…

…to a Requirement…

…to a Test Case …

This is a link


Positioning of ALM solutions

on the market


Proprietary Licence mainly

Proprietary Licence

FREE GPL LICENCE

How OPEN are the ALM solutions delivered by SOFTWARE PROVIDERS?

HP ALM

MKS

Visual Studio

IBM RTC

Teamforge Solution mainly proprietary. Collabnet, sponsor of SVN

Polarion Solution mainly proprietary. Just a few number of free components Jira + Confluence + Crucible

Proprietary- Free only for open source project

Tuleap 100% free & open source for all types of projects

Unlimited number of projects Unlimited number of users

Gforge AS Proprietary-Free for 15 users

maximum

Gforge Open-Source Very limited number of features


Build management

Document management

Collaboration tools

Release management

Change management

Version control Project management

Continous Integration

Development Tool

Eclipse Mantis

Bugzilla

Trac

SVN

Git

Mercurial

CVS

Ant

Phing

Maven

Jenkins

Tuleap Suite

Gforge Open-Source

Free tool driven by a

Community Free tool driven by a

Foundation Free tool driven by a

Software Provider

Famous FREE tools for software engineering

Redmine

FusionForge


Comparaison of 3 free forges: FusionForge, Redmine et Tuleap

Stability at largescale

Number of features

Updates and NewReleases

Technical Quality

Information &Ressources

available

Responsivess ofsupport request

Extensibility

Popularity

Tuleap (PHP)

Redmine (Ruby)

FusionForge (PHP)


Why should you choose an

Open Source solution for your ALM ?


1. Innovation: Most innovations in software engineering come from

free/open-source communities

Be the first to leverage these innovations with cutting-edge tools and new

methodologies

Why should you choose an Open Source solution for your ALM ?


1. Innovation : Most innovations in software engineering come from free communities.

Be the 1st to leverage these innovations with cutting-edge tools four your business

3. Interoperability : free and open source software offers a unique openness

2. Extensibility: only an open-source solution can be so easily and seamless tailored

to the specificities of your business : leverage open standards and API

4. Keep free and independent: don’t coop up your software innovations in a tool.

Stay free to change your mind.

5 good reasons to choose

an Open Source solution for your ALM ?

5. Decrease the Total Cost of Ownership


More info: www.tuleap.org

Online demo : demo-tuleap.enalean.com

Download: tuleap.net

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