Benefits of using A3 Platform

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. The 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, Issues

• Set priority to Requirements, Activities, Issues

• Create Sub-Requirements to elaborate Requirement

• Create Activities under Requirement to record the tasks to do to fulfill the Requirement

• Assign Activity to project member or specific project role

• Post follow-up to Activity to report progress

• Keep record of conversation (follow-ups) among members

• Discussion on specific Requirement, Activity and Artifact, Issue

• Attach files to Requirement, Activity and Artifact, Issue

• Locate Requirement, Activity, Artifact and Issue 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 of the project

• Decide which cell (Iteration/Phase/Discipline) to store 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 BP-VA 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

• Plan testing with Test Case editor
• Test and record test result
• Report Issues
• Manage work easily through Activity
• Report progress easily through Activity follow up