SiberSafe Definer (Agile Edition)
SiberSafe Agile Edition addresses the needs of those software development teams that have embarked on the Agile software development methodology. Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering that promotes development iterations throughout the life-cycle of the project.
There are many agile development methods; most minimize risk by developing software in short amounts of time. Software developed during one unit of time is referred to as an iteration, which may last from one to four weeks. Each iteration is an entire software project: including planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation. An iteration may not add enough functionality to warrant releasing the product to market but the goal is to have an available release (without bugs) at the end of each iteration. At the end of each iteration, the team re-evaluates project priorities.
Agile Partnership: Berteig & SiberLogic
- Partnered to better address the requirements of distributed Agile teams;
- Berteig brings their Agile process expertise to the table;
- SiberLogic offers the Agile Edition of their Product Knowledge Management platform, SiberSafe Definer;
Agile: What works well
- Iterative approach to product development
- Latest and greatest functionality available in good quality right away
- Reduced paperwork overhead
- Early feedback from product stakeholders
- No surprises when approaching deadlines or milestones
Agile: What can be improved
- Agile requires fast knowledge transfer and continuous knowledge sharing across product team members;
- Agile-compliant tools that offer distributed product teams efficient product knowledge transfer/sharing process are required;
- Agile requires additional tools for better control over the product vision and current state;
- Whiteboards don’t work well for distributed product teams
- Rarely meet in the same room;
- Different time zones;
- Language barriers;
- Verbal communication doesn’t scale;
- Many Agile tools are not easy to customize;
SiberSafe Definer's Agile Edition: What it is
- SiberSafe is a product knowledge management platform that centrally stores and organizes information about...
- Product management resources
- Products, Projects, Features, Iterations, Tasks etc;
- Business analysis resources
- Markets, user groups, user needs and use cases/stories;
- Product documentation and training resources
- Manuals, references, training courseware;
- Marketing collateral resources
- Whitepapers, data sheets,
- Maintains a holistic vision of the product’s current state;
- Maintains complete traceability across all product knowledge resources;
- Offers fully customizable data model and user interface;
- Uses open standard data storage formats: RDF and XML;
- Define and enforce your own workflow, adding or configuring
- Task types, Task states, Task state transitions
- Roles, Workflow triggers, Email notifications
SiberSafe Definer: What you can do with it
- Identify your markets, target groups and needs;
- Identify products and product issues/features that address needs;
- Create stories that define/describe these features;
- Map features/issues onto projects;
- Identify development tasks to implement product features;
- Map feature development tasks onto iterations;
- Map features onto marketing collateral assets
- Map feature stories onto product documentation assets
- Map feature stories onto product training assets
- Maintain traceability between requirements and development tasks;
- Manage your workflow: create tasks and assign implementers;
- Retrieve or contribute the product knowledge over the web;
SiberSafe Definer: Customize It!
- Every Agile environment is different
- Different workflows, prioritization, planning, traceability, resource allocation, UI preferences etc;
- SiberSafe Definer offers
- RDF Schema-driven data/knowledge model
- XML Schema/DTD-driven content model
- Configuration-driven GUI
- Add new knowledge resource types and relationships as you need;
- Structure your documents (requirement descriptions, stories etc) the way you like;
Next Steps
- Engage Berteig/SiberLogic into a pilot Agile project, with 10-15 team members;
- Berteig will provide Business Analysis, consulting and Training services;
- SiberLogic will provide the software as well as the related configuration and customization services, if necessary;
- Both ASP (software-as-service) and in-house installation options are available;
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