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Rational

Solution Brief

Requirements-drivenquality for agile softwaredeliveryBe as agile as you need to be

Highlights

Improve time to value and quality with afits just right process

Gain consensus and validation quickly

with ongoing stakeholder/customer

involvement and team collaboration

Respond rapidly to changes in

requirements

Test and validate continuously through-

out the development process

Quickly deliver iterations of a

consumable solution

Todays software environment is driven by the mandate to deliver value

at the speed of businesses, and an agile approach can help organiza-

tions rapidly deliver high-quality software that aligns development with

customer needs and company goals. Agile delivery is becoming wide-spread because it works wellorganizations are finding that agile proj-

ect teams, when compared to traditional project teams, enjoy higher

success rates, deliver higher quality, have greater levels of stakeholder

satisfaction, provide better return on investment (ROI), and deliver

systems to market sooner.1

Scaling the agile development process to meet

the needs of your team or companyTraditional agile teams are ones that are typically smaller and co-

located, perhaps with just 10-15 members total. But what if your team

doesnt look like this? Can you still employ agile methods? What do

you do when the group is larger with 75, 100, or more members spread

out across the globe? How do you keep the communication and the

artifacts synchronized and enable the business owners and the delivery

team to make informed decisions? What if your existing organization

structure and culture reflects waterfall values, increasing the complexity

of adopting and scaling agile strategies within your organization?


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Requirements-driven quality solutions

help reduce ambiguity and reworkIBM can help. With IBM Rational requirements-driven

quality solutions, teams dealing with any number of todays

business, organization, and technical complexities can employ

an agile approach for greater success.

An agile approach can scale to support ongoing collaboration

with stakeholders on requirements in real time to help gain

consensus. Using visual and textual techniques (such as rich

text, use cases and sketches), teams can align requirements

with business processes and objectives, and focus on validat-

ing business goals. As change occurs throughout the deliverylife cycle, full traceability enables impact analyses for rapid

critical decision support and risk mitigation. This ability to

collaboratively capture the needs of the business, along with

visualizing and validating requirements before committing

additional project resources, can help your organization avoid

the pitfalls that so often lead to project failures.

Integrated process, tooling, and metrics

to enhance agile software deliveryA requirements-driven quality solution can help agile delivery

teams operate with just enough process and tooling to

deliver software in less time, with less risk and higher quality

by using integrated workflows that foster clarity of require-

ments and speed defect time-to-resolution. IBM Rational

Requirements Composer and IBM Rational Quality

Management software, in combination with Rational Team

Concert software, can help accelerate the core workflows

that integrate and automate developing, building and validat-

ing software.

Aid consistent team collaboration, rapid response to

change, ongoing customer involvement and delivery of

working software. Automate processes and repetitive tasks where it makes

sense to improve team efficiency. Integrated workflows manage change and help appropriate

levels of traceability between requirements, build and test

artifacts. Provide constant access to filtered, prioritized quality met-

rics for fact-based, informed decision making.

IBM Software Solution Brief

Rational

Compliance requirement

AgileDevelopment

Low risk

Co-located Minimal Significant

In-house

Informal Formal

Third party

Global

Projectfocus

Under 10developers

100s ofdevelopers

Simple,

single platform

Complex,

multi-platform

Enterprisefocus

Critical,Audited

Enterprise discipline

Geographical distribution

Application complexity

Team size Degree of Governance

Organization distribution(outsourcing, partnerships)

Entrenched process,people, and policy

Figure 1: Become more agile at scale: Scaling factors require more discipline and communication

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With IBM Rational solutions, organizations get the technol-ogy, best practices, and industry expertise to succeed in an

agile environmentregardless of their level of complexity.

Our products IBM Rational Requirements Composer software

provides agile teams with an easy to use, collaborative

method for defining and using requirements effectively

across the project life cycle. IBM Rational Team Concert softwaregives agile

teams a development environment that enables innovation

through collaboration.

IBM Rational Quality Manager softwareprovidesagile teams a collaborative test management environment to

reduce risk and ensure functionality, reliability and per-

formance in development and production.

Figure 2:Align development and test activities with customer value

IBM Software Solution Brief

Rational

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Analyst Developer Quality Professional

Analysts define andvalidate scenarios;analyze and organizerequirements.

Developers and Quality

Professionals can link to

associated requirements,sketches or storyboards.

Quality Professionalcaptures test executionresults and logs defectas a work-item.

Developers see defect in

their To Do list, and canlink to detailed defectinformation.
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For more informationTo learn more about IBM Rational requirements-driven

quality solutions for agile software delivery teams, contact

your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit:

ibm.com/software/rational/agile/solutions

Additionally, financing solutions from IBM Global Financing

can enable effective cash management, protection from tech-

nology obsolescence, improved total cost of ownership and

return on investment. Also, our Global Asset Recovery

Services help address environmental concerns with new,

more energy-efficient solutions. For more information on

IBM Global Financing, visit:ibm.com/financing

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