ZenSOFT UCM
The road to success for software development projects relies on.........
- Sound Configuration Management processes.
- Seamless integration of these processes and the tools.
Why ZenSOFT?
- We specialize in Rational Software's tool set; including Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Case MultiSite, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Quest MultiSite and UCM.
- Our Technically competent consultants provide the cutting edge in SCM practices. Our Clear Case, Clear Quest and UCM Consultants are skilled in developing custom CM plans, defining and implementing policies, procedures and best practices.
- ZenSOFT has considerable experience helping companies understand exactly what types of services would help improve their software development process, enhance performance, improve integration, traceability and increase productivity.
- ZenSOFT provides skilled help to customize identify and fix problems that arise from various organizational and operational sources and needs.
- ZenSOFT provides solutions and services in the area of Analysis & design, Testing, Configuration Management, Release Management and integrating different technologies, assessing how various tools are being used within an organization, developing software processes, aiding in improving performance and software delivery.
UCM Consulting Clients
- Cap Gemini
- KPIT Cummins
- Pyxis
Client Benefits
- Rather than take your key personnel off-line to perform tasks, clients can rely on us to complete them by augmenting your staff.
- Customers often do not have the time to learn about all of the issues surrounding software development tool technologies. We stand in for them.
ZenSOFT is proud to be the first IBM Value Advantage Plus (VAP) to be appointed in Asia.
ZenSOFT is proud to hold 10 IBM Rational technical certifications!
UCM Challenges
The demands of an Internet-driven economy require the production of high quality software applications at unprecedented speeds. Software application requirements continue to grow more complex, along with the structure of the development environment. Distributed development teams, heightened performance demands, multiple platforms, shorter and continuous release cycles these factors and others intensify the traditional pressures of a software development environment. Add to these challenges the escalating cost of failure. Companies often “bet the business” on the success of a new application. In a business environment where technology serves as organizations’ primary interface with customers, application successes and failures are highly visible and costly.
Team Dynamics
Developing quality software in a repeatable and predictable fashion is a job that requires the coordinated activity of a team of developers. Although individual productivity is still important as systems get larger and more complex, the productivity of the team as a whole becomes a much more important factor in the success or failure of a project.
The productivity of a software development team is largely determined by its ability to coordinate and organize activities. And its success is strongly linked to how efficiently it can respond to changing environmental factors.
Internal activities create constant change in the software development environment in the form of new feature introductions, new enhancement requests and defect fixes. External factors such as new operating environments, the integration of new tools, improvements in engineering techniques and market conditions drive change with additional force.
Resistance to change is not a viable solution for development organizations that need to compete in Internet time. Nor is straying off course to respond immediately to every change request
Unified Change Management from IBM Rational
Successful software development teams adopt strategies to deal with the inevitability of change. These change management strategies can be based on experience, preferences and organizational mandates. And they often stem from manual processes that evolve with organizational growth and changing requirements. A critical success factor for any change management process is its ability to scale.
As development organizations grow and release cycles accelerate, the need for tools and processes that streamline the management of software change becomes essential. Rational Software’s Unified Change Management (UCM) delivers this process with a tooling infrastructure provided by Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest and Rational
Suite. Powered by Rational Clear Case and Rational Clear Quest, UCM is Rational’s activity-based process for change management.
IBM Rational offers a reliable and comprehensive change management solution that integrates the capabilities of two leading tools: Rational Clear Case for software configuration management and Rational Clear Quest for defect and change tracking.
Both Rational Clear Case and Rational Clear Quest provide extensive flexibility for configuring processes that manage change in software development. When used together, these powerful tools simplify change management by clearly identifying associations between any type of change request whether enhancement request or bug fix with related changes in application code or Web content.
Unified Change Management takes the integration of software configuration management and defect and change tracking several steps further by providing a pre-defined process that organizes work around activities and artifacts.
Based on the Rational best practice of managing change, Unified Change Management is enabled by IBM Rational Clear Case and IBM Rational Clear Quest. It accelerates development with an out-of-the-box process model that can be turned on or off, based on the specific needs of a software development team
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