A³ Platform 1.0 Release Notes
Release Date: February 9, 2009
The Visual Paradigm (Activity Analysis Approach) A³ Development Platform is a configurable software engineering process management tool to align, execute and improve system development, delivered through a Web-enabled platform. Now, your development teams can proactively define and manage software requirements throughout the application lifecycle, anywhere and anytime with internet access. The A³ Platform enhances team productivity and delivers software best practices by integrating VP's best-of-the-breed agile modeling tools for all critical software lifecycle activities, enabling stakeholders across the organization to collaborate effectively. It can also be served as a searchable knowledge repository helping the development team to manage and trace software requirements throughout the entire development lifecycle, assessing impact and reacting rapidly to ever-changing requirements.
A³ Platform provides a complete environment for software development team to develop softwares in collaborative way. The Iteration driven design allows team members to focus on requirements and activities within an Iteration. Followings are the benefits for different roles of team members within the software development team.
Common benefits:
System Architect
Project Manager
Business Analyst and System Analyst
Programmer and Tester
A³ Platform provides a complete environment for software development team to develop softwares in collaborative way. The Iteration driven design allows team members to focus on requirements and activities within an Iteration. Followings are the benefits for different roles of team members within the software development team.
Common benefits:
- User friendly interface to create and manage Requirements, Activities and Artifacts
- Give priority to Requirements and Activities
- Create Sub-Requirements to elaborate Requirement
- Create Activities under Requirement to realize Requirement
- Assign Activity to project member or project role
- Post follow up to Activity to report progress or change assignment
- Keep record for conversation (follow ups) among members
- Discussion on specific Requirement, Activity and Artifact
- Attach files to Requirement, Activity and Artifact
- Locate Requirement, Activity and Artifact through advanced search function
- Effective workflow environment by assigning Activities to members and keep the assignment history
System Architect
- Design or customize software development process
- Create and manage number of iterations for the project
- Decide which cell (Iteration/Phase/Discipline) to contain what resources
Project Manager
- Manage software development project in iteration base
- Create and assign Activities to team members to drive the progress
- Review progress of Requirements, Activity and Artifacts through Process View
Business Analyst and System Analyst
- Send Business Process Diagram from Business Process Visual Architect to A³ Platform
- Send Requirement from VP-UML or Agilian to A3 Platform
- Plan and manage Requirements and Activities
- Organize project related files with Artifact
Programmer and Tester
- Manage work easily through Activity
- Report progress easily through Activity follow up