how to manage your requirements efficiently - by kovair software
DESCRIPTION
Kovair supports Requirements Management of many flavors - Standard as well as Proprietary methodologies or processes. All the capabilities necessary for effective and effortless Requirements Management are built-in in Kovair and are accessible through a highly user-friendly web interface. Kovair’s rich implementation of requirements gathering, parsing, management, traceability, base lining and intelligent reporting in a process-driven methodology enables project teams to effectively manage and map requirements.TRANSCRIPT
Manage Your Requirements EfficientlyManage Your Requirements Efficiently
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Key Issues
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• Synchronizing information to keep stakeholders on the same page
• Cross team collaboration between geographically distributed teams
• Managing changes to requirements, assess impact of proposed changes, and propagating approved changes
• Implementing centralized workflow
• Analyzing requirements coverage to ensure regulatory compliance
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Kovair Architectural Framework
Task Task ManagementManagement
Time Time ManagementManagement
Omniprocess Process Management TechnologyOmniprocess Process Management Technology
Application Foundation Services – Security, Collaboration, Access ControlApplication Foundation Services – Security, Collaboration, Access Control
Built-in ApplicationsBuilt-in ApplicationsALM Studio, ITSM studioALM Studio, ITSM studio
User Defined ApplicationsUser Defined Applicationse.g. Vendor Management, Customer On-e.g. Vendor Management, Customer On-
boardingboarding
Omnibus Integration Framework Omnibus Integration Framework
Application Management FrameworkApplication Management Framework
Omnibus Integration Framework Omnibus Integration Framework
DocumentDocumentManagementManagement
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ProjectProjectManagementManagement
Kovair Requirements Management - Capabilities
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• 100% web based solution making stakeholders to work on same source of information
• Capability of capturing requirements from multiple sources and in multiple formats -• Direct Entry supporting textual entry as well as narratives• Email• Corporate Website• Microsoft Word, Excel documents • From other tools via integration
• As easy as in Microsoft Office without any limitations and shortcomings
• Has provision for collaborative way of reviewing and approving requirements
• Provides In-built diagramming capability allowing users to draw • UML• Mockups• BPMN diagrams and many more
Kovair Requirements Management - Capabilities
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• Provides guaranteed cross tool end to end traceability
• Has support for reactive and proactive impact handling
• Unique capability of defining custom relationship between artifacts
• Has extensive support for versioning
• Helps to understand the "Who, What, When and Why" of any changes
• Allows enterprise wide reuse of artifacts to reduce errors and re-work
• Provides Advanced level access control mechanism at enterprise as well as record level
• Cross tool dashboards and analytics
• Real-time data based reports and dashboards to keep track of the progress
Kovair Requirements Management - Capabilities
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• Has Task Based Process Engine to support any workflow or methodology• Create multiple processes for each application• Drag and drop Visual designer• Support for Cross tool processes
• Provides support for Baseline
• Allow custom template based reporting in Word satisfying different standards
• Capability of generating outputs/reports in Word, Excel and PDF
• Integrated with best-of-breed, open source, legacy and homegrown tools through Kovair Omnibus Engine
Complex Workflow Designed Within Kovair
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• SOA based ESB architecture
• Ability to perform real-time bi-directional flow between tools
• Supports linking and synching of artifacts between tools
• Supports federation and synchronization of data
• Allows transformation of data when they are flowing between tools
• Ability to call external web services
• Supports centralized process, traceability, analytics, and reports
• Supports conflict management
• Ability to define cross tool relations through plug-ins
Kovair Omnibus Integration – Features
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• Integrate and orchestrate best-of-breed, open source, legacy and homegrown tools
• Achieve seamless bi-directional data flow between ALM and IT tools
• Gain ALM tools interoperability, cross-repository linking and transparency
• Make better and timely decisions with cross-tool reports and dashboards.
• Increase ROI having automated cross tool Task based work flow management
• Leverage better team collaboration between globally distributed teams
• Manage end-to-end traceability from Requirements to Code to Testing and Delivery
• Eliminate manual handoffs and reduce administrative overhead
Kovair Omnibus Integration – Benefits
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Omnibus Integration Bus – Off the shelf Integrations
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Demo Flow
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RequirementGathering
Maintaining Repository
Requirements Approval
Reusing Requirements
Versioning and Tracking Changes
Traceability
Defect ManagementIntegration with JIRA
End to End Traceability
Reporting
Test Management
Configurability
Export
Change Management
Product Demo
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