Why is Polarion the ALM Solution for Software Developers?

The Fast Answer: Polarion reduces or eliminates distractions from internal process activities and helps you stay focused. You waste less of your increasingly scarce time on "management minutiae".

The Whole Story

You know technology is getting more and more complex every day. Yet projects must be delivered in shorter time frames, under smaller budgets, and with higher quality. To survive in this kind of environment, developers have put a lot of effort into self-training: reading and research, and discussion in various online communities to keep up to date, to find good components to reuse, etc.

On top of all that, Project Managers want daily and/or weekly progress reports and meetings, re-planning activities, and generally boring discussions on the need for detailed reporting. You can be left wondering, "When am I supposed to develop the code? During my lunch break? At night in my sleep?!"

Of course you understand that these "peripheral" activities are important to overall success of projects. But unfortunately, these really just distract you from your true work: creating software and solutions. And your true work means maximizing flow time – that almost magical mind state in which developers experience maximum productivity. Clear objectives, reasonable targets, and aggressive incentives all help. So do integrated ALM tools and automated ALM processing that relieve you of necessary but distracting mundane tasks. Enter Polarion ALM...

Polarion ALM helps you gain more flow time. You just look into your assigned tasks where you can clearly see the latest, up-to-the minute priorities and planning info. Tasks are linked to Requirements, so you can quickly get a handle on the Big Picture. You concentrate on execution, and then check in your work. Now here's where it gets interesting. After your check-in, the project plan and management reports are automatically updated – no need to write up status reports or sit through boring status meetings! Your manager can check Polarion's Live Dashboards and reports and stay informed about the whole team's progress. Others whose tasks depend on the completion of your task are automatically notified. The completed code moves along to the next phase of your process – QA, documentation, whatever. All this takes place immediately and automatically while you are already concentrating on your next task.

If your process requires it, you can quickly create Work Reports to report time spend on individual Work Items, or use the handy Time Sheet view to explicitly report time spent on assigned tasks during a specific period of time.

 

More info

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What next?

• Try Polarion ALM on our Live Demo Server     ( Request account )
• Check out the Screenshot Gallery
• Download Polarion ALM (Registration is requested)
• FastTrack: free Eclipse plugin
• Request more information with our online RFI form