A³ Platform provides a complete environment for software development team to develop softwares in collaborative way.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction to A³ Platform

A³ Platform stands for Activity Analysis Approach Platform. A³ Platform applies the A³ software development process, which covers the full software development life cycle from business modeling to maintenance. A³ Platform allows users to customize the A³ software development process to adapt to different situations.

Chapter 2 - Home View

The Home view provides you with fast access to various resources by listing the recently changed resources, recently replied or opened discussions and activities assigned to me. You can also review the submitted resources as well as those monitoring resources.

Chapter 3 - Process View

The Process view shows the formation of project's Software Development Lifecycle in matrix form. The matrix is composed of Iterations, Phases and Disciplines. Each cell reports progress of Resources (requirements, activities, artifacts) within the lifecycle. You can review individual progress by clicking on the progress bar in a cell.

Chapter 4 - Calendar View

The Calendar view displays Activities on a calendar. By applying appropriate filter, you can display Activities that are either submitted, planned to finish, planned to finish, actually started or actually finished within a month. You can also narrow down records by filtering the Activity status and assignee. An overview of Activity which consists of the summary, assignee and progress of Activity will appear when hovering on it. You can click on an Activity to open it directly.

Chapter 5 - Requirements View

Requirement is function that a target system must achieve. It can be functions required by the users, the customers or even the developers. A Requirement can have multiple Sub-Requirements for describing functions in finer details. It can also have multiple Sub-Activities for representing works needed to do in order to achieve the Requirement. Requirements view is the page that lets you create Requirements. You also can list Requirements by applying appropriate filters.

Chapter 6 - Activities View

Activity is work that perform within a Software Development Lifecycle. An Activity can be atomic or compound, which breaks work down work to finer level of detail through the use of Sub-Activities. Activities view is the page that lets you create Activities. You also can list Activities by applying appropriate filters.

Chapter 7 - Issues View

An Issue is about an unsatisfactory experience with the project. In specific, it can be a finding about any discrepancies between a Requirement and the final result, a bug in a system, or any problems that require assistance. By providing sufficient information about an Issue, assignee can track down and solve the problem.

Chapter 8 - Artifacts View

A team may collect and produce documents, executable during the Software Development Lifecycle. A3-Platform allows users to upload and manage Artifacts in each cell. Users can make a reference from Requirement and Activity to Artifacts.

Chapter 9 - Cell View

Cell View summarizes and lists the three kinds of resources, i.e. Requirement, Activity and Artifacts in tabular form. You can select a location to filter records, and open a resource by clicking on the table row.

Chapter 10 - Search View

The Search view provides a handy and advanced search function to find Requirements, Activities and Artifacts by keywords. There are difference options for you to optimize your search.

Chapter 11 - Manage User

Manage User lets administrator create, edit and delete projects. The three available roles of users are administrator, project director and user. One system can have only one administrator. In other words, you can only edit the existing one but not to create a new one. Project director maintains the right for project management such as to create, edit and delete projects. He/she also can join projects, while an administrator cannot. Among all, user is the most general one which can join projects but have no right to create, edit or delete projects.

Chapter 12 - Manage Project

Manage Project lets administrator or project director create, edit and delete projects. By giving a name to a project and assigning a user as project manager, a project can be created. Users can also be assigned to other roles such as business analyst, system architect, system analyst, programmer, tester and customer.