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Seapine ALM 2012   Quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions enable you to deliver quality software products faster and within budget. Tightly-integrated ALM tools help streamline communication, improve traceability, achieve compliance, and deliver quality. Top solutions in this space enable you to automate stress and boundary tests without virtual machines. So, to gain a competitive edge, leverage a solution that offers calculated fields which allow you to analyze workflow using custom metrics, and implement risk management and issue triage strategies using your own scoring formulas.  We interview Jeff Amfahr to gain Seapine Software's perspective on What's New in Seapine ALM 2012. Jeff is a Director of Product Management at Seapine Software. 24 Minutes Requirements Traceability   You know you need traceability in your product development process to ensure quality and manage the impact of change. You may even think you’re pretty good at it. But how strong is your traceability? Strong enough to guarantee quality in every product, every time? Strong enough to help you eliminate wasted time and dollars? Strong enough to pass a compliance audit? You may think so, but if your company or department exhibits certain symptoms your traceability may not be as strong as you think. Achieving traceability within a product development lifecycle helps ensure that changes are shared across teams, in order to maintain quality and compliance. Traceability is especially critical for achieving compliance with ever-stricter government agencies. We interview Peter Varhol to gain Seapine Software's perspective on requirements traceability. Peter is a Solutions Evangelist with Seapine Software. 46 Minutes Democratizing BPM   Seeing and understanding important business and IT information is a critical challenge. Meeting this challenge can be achieved with diagramming tools that help you organize and simplify business process complexity. Whether you’re capturing existing business processes or analyzing your supply chain, you need to leverage tools that make it easier for business and IT users to map processes and share business insight across your organization. By using standardized notations you can help all process participants build diagrams that conform to standards and make complex business process information easier to understand. But, getting the entire picture requires a clear and complete view of your business processes at both a high-level perspective as well as a more detailed look into you data. We interview Chris Crane to gain Microsoft's perspective on BPM. Chris is the director of Visio Product Management at Microsoft.  39 Minutes Agile Development   Agile development can boost the productivity of developers, QA testers, product owners—and ultimately, increase the value of what is delivered to customers. Agile also enables development teams to collaborate better, and shortens release cycles. So, even if your team is not completely immersed into agile development, you are probably seeking to make parts of your process more Agile. To meet that challenge, you need the flexibility to run Agile and traditional software development projects in parallel without different teams having to use different tools. Whether your organization is using iterative waterfall, scrum, or another development methodology, you need a solution that adapts to the way your team works. We interview Paula Rome to gain Seapine Software's perspective on Agile Development. Paula is a Product Manager at Seapine Software. 20 Minutes Gain Visibility & Control with EPM   Project and portfolio management helps organizations improve visibility and control across varied portfolios. Effective PPM solutions need to provide organizations of different sizes and maturity levels with the right tools to ensure that teams can successfully collaborate to deliver projects on time and realize their anticipated return on investment (ROI). Even departments within a large organization might have divergent PPM requirements. To stay competitive, select an EPM solution which provides executives, portfolio analysts, managers, and team members with productivity tools to effectively manage all work throughout its life cycle, and to ensure alignment with an organization’s business strategy. We interview Arpan Shah to gain Microsoft's perspective on Enterprise Project Management. Arpan is the Director of Product Management for Microsoft Project.  23 Minutes  SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization   Companies are adopting Virtualization in the data center to reduce the server costs of supporting SOA. Furthermore, if you are tackling the hardest quality and integration challenges, you need to eliminate dependencies among teams throughout the application development lifecycle. That can be achieved by virtualizing the behaviors of complex services-based applications. Moreover, expanding on the value of server consolidation and test lab virtualization beyond the enterprise data center, is key to providing faster time-to-market and quality across the full lifecycle of developing, testing and maintaining highly interconnected services-based applications. We interview John Michelsen to gain with iTKO's perspective on SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization. John is the Chief Scientist & co-founder of iTKO.  45 Minutes  Integrated Test Environments   With as little as 29% of organizations using a test case management application, the use of test case management solutions is still in its infancy. Inefficient methods such as ad hoc testing, and paper-based systems can cost you. Moreover, manual processes and informal test case management can contribute to missed deadlines and cost overruns. Furthermore, your challenge may exacerbated by test case data and defects being scattered across multiple systems. This could result in you not being able to analyze test failures or having to compiling data manually. Developers have used change and defect management applications for years to improve quality and efficiency, but QA departments are just now moving to electronic tracking systems. We interview Paula Rome to gain Seapine Software's perspective on test case management and issue tracking. Paula is a Product Manager at Seapine Software. 42 Minutes Automated Testing   Quality assurance engineers are being asked to take on more complex projects than ever before. Application complexity has increased to the point that formerly simple test plans now encompass hundreds, if not thousands, of test cases that must be executed under stringent deadlines. These demands have resulted in quality assurance teams seeking higher efficiencies than traditional manual testing provides. However, while automated testing is often hailed as a panacea it may not necessarily be appropriate for every project. So, it’s important to let hard numbers be your guide to this important decision. We interview Tom Cohen to gain Seapine Software's perspective on automated testing. Tom is a Sr. Product Manager with Seapine Software. 30 Minutes Streamlined Development With SCM   Software change and configuration management tools support the structured approval, assignment, monitoring, execution and reporting of changes to software products for teams. For small teams, simple versioning and configuration might suffice. However, if you involve more than a couple of dozen participants, SCCM products are needed. Furthermore, measurable, enforceable, and repeatable SCCM techniques are critical to delivering quality software products on time. Leverage the right solution and you will have complete control over the software change process, a clearer view of the state of files, and streamlined parallel development. We interview Jeff Amfahr to gain Seapine Software's perspective on software change and configuration management. Jeff is a Senior Product Manager at Seapine Software. 38 Minutes Collaborative Software Development Distributed development organizations are often limited by conventional build and test processes that are not designed to provide the flexibility, optimization and processes to meet the operational challenges associated with building and testing software in highly distributed environments. To overcome this limitation, centralized LAN-based approaches are being displaced by a distributed Collaborative Development Environment (CDE) approach. The goal of a CDE is to unify project managers, developers, and business users within a single development environment accessible from anywhere in the world. We interview Nick Bonfiglio to gain COLLABNET's perspective on build and test governance capabilities. Nick is the VP of Worldwide Operations for CollabNet.  40 Minutes

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