Serena's new Application Development Management offering gives software development executives insight into development projects within the enterprise. Serena ADM provides a dashboard allowing views of various development metrics. The ADM solution is available as an on-demand or on-premises technology.Serena Software has introduced a new solution called Application Development
Management, a dashboard targeted at development executives and IT managers.
Serena ADM is an ALM (application
lifecycle management) solution that enables managers to have visibility into
just what is being built by their programming organizations. Executives and
managers can use Serena ADM to get the
current status of upcoming deliverables and product releases, monitor key
software development metrics all in one place, and quickly and easily prepare
for executive reviews, said Rene Bonvanie, senior vice president of IT for
marketing and Serena On Demand.
"ADM is a new offering we have for
both on-premise[s] and on-demand environments," Bonvanie said, indicating
that Serena makes ADM available as part of
its growing stable of SAAS (software as a service) offerings. "This gives
the manager visibility into all the developer projects in their
organization."
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Serena ADM can cover traditional
application development methods as well as new methodologies such as agile
development, Bonvanie said. Serena will be delivering its own on-demand agile
development solution by the end of 2008, and ADM
will support that, Bonvanie said.
"If you're a head of application development, many times you want to
look at what you build and why you build it," Bonvanie said. "So this
is not only a planning tool, but one that helps you communicate with the
stakeholders in the process."
A Serena fact sheet on the ADM solution
said:
All of your applications are tracked
in one place. Your development teams can then update project status, track
milestones and manage development costs for each product release. ADM combines this capability to track and
monitor progress with the ability to present reports on key development metrics
for that release. For example, ADM can
easily present Serena TeamTrack/Business Mashups reports on issues and defects.
In general, ADM can display any report that is URL
addressable. That allows ADM to
present information from across multiple development systems in one location so
that you can see the big picture.
With ADM, Bonvanie said, "You can
check into build metrics and other metrics And you can look across your
projects and see if there are any optimizations you can do to individual
projects."
The ADM solution looks at a broad array
of issues, such as plan costs and project benefits, release status, release
milestones, quality metrics, support case metrics, escalations, customer
commitments, defects, and application health reports, he said.
"In essence, what you have here is a portfolio management product that
looks at everything you have in a resourceful way," Bonvanie said.
"Although it sounds like PPM [Project Portfolio Management], generic PPM
understands nothing about the software development life cycle. We use a PPM
engine, but we focus it toward the software development life cycle."
Bonvanie described Serena ADM as "a
natural extension to our strategy. This is an important element of our
strategy. It is something that is highly incremental to what we do."
Serena provides a series of on-demand and on-premises
application development tools and solutions, as well as business process
improvement and PPM software.
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