Agile Solution

Digite ALM on SaaS: Scaled Agile Solution

Whether you are an Agile pro or trying it out for the first time, you will like Digité’s Agile Solution. Combining Agile methods like Scrum with real world experience of having to manage distributed teams with high productivity, Digité’s SaaS solutions provide you a great way to move your Agile projects online. Using Digité’s web-based, integrated capabilities, you can now work with team members, customers and partners and still follow Agile principles of software development.

Digite Value Proposition

• Ready-to-use solution with pre-configured Release, Sprint/ Iteration, User Story and Task objects to cover all levels of planning and execution in an Agile project.

• Quick task definition and progress reporting, hence team members can focus more on story development thereby increasing the productivity of the team.

• Burndown charts, Velocity reports and a host of other dashboard metrics for real-time, online status

• Comprehensive and integrated Test and Defect management modules, ensuring test case development for each user story, ensuring full test coverage and defect tracking.

• Full complement of integrated collaboration tools like Wiki, Google Wave, Twitter and Email, etc. for effective collaboration and communication.

• An overall integrated environment for managing Agile as well as other processes, enabling easy metric consolidation across different types of projects.

Key Features of Digite Agile Solution

Manage Product Backlog

• Define and manage User Stories using a rich-text editor in a form based UI/ UX with built-in collaboration features like adding comments, attachments to each user story etc.

• Classify the user stories by tagging various attribute values like Story Type, Module, and Story State etc.

• Estimate user stories in terms of story points or number of hours of development time.

• Rank/prioritize the stories in a quick excel-like grid view to define the development sequence.

• Use workflow/audit trail capability built-in to the user story module for collaborating with various stakeholders and building the backlog.

Release Planning

• Once the product backlog is defined, product owner can organize the story development across one or more releases by defining the ‘Release’ placeholders in the release module.

• Each ‘Release’ can have a ‘Theme’ based on which the product

Task Creation and Progress Reporting

• Team members can update the progress on the tasks on a daily basis by reporting the ‘Remaining Effort’ or/ and ‘Actual Effort’ Spent on the task.

• Once the story development is complete, test cases can be executed in the ‘Test Management; module and any defects identified, can be initiated and tracked in the defect module with a complete traceability between User Story->-Test Event->Test Unit->Defect.

Team Collaboration

• Plan, and organize daily Scrum meetings / retrospectives, record minutes and track identified action items.

• Create forums to discuss project issues/impediments and setup a project ‘wiki’ to collaborate or exchange information on various topics.

• Integrated threaded Discussion Forums to discuss project issues/impediments.

• Project Wiki (Beta) to collaborate or exchange information on various topics.

Project Progress Tracking

Digite SaaS Solutions provide one of the most extensive set of metrics and reports, fully configured for immediate use.

• Reports

  • Iteration Status Report

  • Iteration Velocity Report

  • Iteration Burndown Report

  • Release Burndown Report

  • Release Status Report

  • Traceability Reports

• Charts

  • Project Progress/ Effort Tracker

  • User Story Status– By Story Type/ Status/ Owner

Iteration Status – By Iteration State