Application Development. In Crisis Lies Opportunity.
In this demanding economic climate, you've got to make smart decisions about which applications to build, enhance, and maintain with an eagle eye on the impact to the business.
To that end, can you accurately answer these questions?
- What applications do I currently have under development across my application development organization?
- What metrics are readily available to monitor project status and determine when the application is ready to ship?
- Who is working on what applications?
- How much is it costing me to build as well as maintain all of these applications?
If you can't answer yes to these questions, you're not alone. Chances are the answers are buried in countless spreadsheets, a myriad Microsoft Project, and multiple application development tools.
With Serena Application Development Management, you can put an end to searching for answers and focus on application development. We help you be more transparent and predictable. You'll have more confidence in your releases. And it will cost you less.
Predictably Deliver
Do your business sponsors wonder what's coming, how much it's going to cost them, and when they can expect it? Our Application Development Management solution ships with built-in best practices for managing development projects, helping you build plans with confidence, and deliver software more predictably. What's more, we deliver visibility into your application development activities in an unbelievably intuitive way with informative reports and dashboards delivered out of the box. Plus, our solution is open! You get visibility across your key systems, such as change management, configuration management and the helpdesk.
Overwhelmed with requests from the business? Your only chance at sanity is implementing a consistent way to select your application development projects. When you evaluate against criteria that are important to the business, your selection process is driven by fact, not emotion - helping you ensure you deliver what the business really needs.
Maniacal About Metrics
Metrics. You live or die by them. Is your find/fix rate at the right level to ship? Are you spending too much time on application maintenance? You need visibility into all your application development metrics - from a single source of the truth.
Do you feel like the cobbler's child? You spend endless hours building systems that provide visibility into sales data, financial data, and just about everything else. But when it comes to getting visibility into the status of application development projects, you're left going hat-in-hand to every project manager.
If you had a crystal ball, what would you want to know about your application development projects? What if you could determine if that Finance application is generating too many escalations. We give you visibility so you can avoid disasters and ship with confidence.
Plus, we work with your existing methodologies, whether you live in the land of Scrum or the land of PMBOK, or anywhere in between. We work with your existing application development tools. Have Subversion here, Serena TeamTrack/Business Mashups there, perhaps Serena Dimensions or a little of this and a little of that? No problem. We can give you visibility across them all.
Lean and Mean
When you hear the phrase Lean Development, you probably think more Corolla than code. Sure, lean practices came out of manufacturing, but they are more applicable than ever to software development. And to top it off, our On Demand software is the mother of all leanness. You can get going for less money and less hassle than ever before.
And, once you're up and running, we give you insight into your resources. You can see what they are working on, and how much time it really takes. You get insight into where your bottlenecks really are, so you can shuffle staff to ensure work keeps flowing.
Do you have a sinking feeling that somewhere in the dark reaches of the data center sits an application (or a dozen) that is hardly used, barely breathing, but constantly being patched to keep it on life support? Applications like that suck the life out of application development.
Eke out the waste. Find the bottlenecks. Drive down your development costs. Our Application Development Management software can help you do that.
