ALM Analytics

Introduction

Software development is risky by nature, with budget overruns, late deliveries and outright failures having significant impact throughout an organization. Furthermore, most of the tools used to track project progress and provide feedback are subjective, and based on perception, estimates and reported progress. Paradoxically, there are plenty of objective measures available from the software development life cycle (SDLC) tools that most organizations
use – tools that can provide objective measures of project status, as well as valuable insight into a development organization's strengths and weaknesses.

The problem is that this data resides in disparate systems, and is not easily available in a format that lends itself to analytical reporting. So organizations either are not utilizing it, or are spending a lot of time and effort to gather and analyze it by hand.

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Leverage Existing SDLC Tools

Whether your organization is not utilizing SDLC data for objective measurements and analysis, or you are painstakingly gathering the data by hand, ALM Analytics™ from Dunn Solutions Group can help your organization take the next step to more accurately monitor your projects and provide the detailed feedback and analysis you need to strengthen your teams and improve your processes.

ALM Analytics allows you to leverage your existing SDLC tools to provide objective assessments of your software development efforts with a single source for all SDLC data. ALM Analytics provides the tools for gathering the data, a centralized data mart for consolidated tracking and trending over time, and a common reporting platform for reviewing and analyzing the data. From discreet tool specific metrics to compound metrics that utilize data from multiple platforms, ALM Analytics delivers the information you need to manage and improve your software development practice.

ALM Analytics gathers and stores data from the following SDLC tools:

  • Requirements Management: Borland CaliberRM
  • Version Control: Borland StarTeam
  • Change Management: Borland StarTeam
  • Defect Management: Mercury Quality Center
  • Project Management: Microsoft Project Server

Future data sources will include other vendors' products in these areas, as well as financial time and billing data. And our flexible, multi-tiered architecture allows us to easily develop custom data feeds for proprietary data sources.