Select Business Solutions™ launches new product Select Scope Manager™

Automate eXtreme Programming (XP) development with Select Scope Manager

BOULDER, Colorado April 3, 2003 — Select Business Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce the General Availability of Select Scope Manager. Select has always offered groundbreaking support for evolutionary and revolutionary processes and has now committed to the support of eXtreme Programming (XP) with the launch of Select Scope Manager.

Select Scope Manager not only supports the principles of XP such as rapid decision making and extensive development feedback, it also automates XP project tracking through Story and Task scope management. Select Scope Manager helps developers automate their XP development, speeding the delivery of business critical applications.

It has been proven that an organization’s development time and cost can be reduced using XP. Now with Select Scope Manager organizations can apply the minimalist practices and scope management to software development as well as document and maintain the software intellectual property within a toolset.

“We used Select’s extensive experience in reducing development time and costs with other techniques such as CBD, UML and SSADM to successfully develop and build Select Scope Manager”, comments Hedley Apperly, VP Marketing and Development, Select Business Solutions. “Select Scope Manager is the first and only toolset which has been built specifically to support XP process and project needs” Continues Apperly.

“We are very happy and excited that early customer feedback on Select Scope Manager is extremely positive. Initial alpha and beta testing feedback suggests that all those who have used Select Scope Manager have seen an immediate Return On Investment, as overall application development time and costs are radically reduced, with improvements in application quality” explains Don Hanson, President, Select Business Solutions.

Select Scope Manager:

  • Enables stories, ideas, documents and analysis to be lodged
  • Facilitates development teams in project estimatation and detailed tasks required
  • Allows the creation of XP Stories extremely quickly with 'wizard' assistance
  • Helps developers to understand 'What-If' scenarios when planning your increments
  • Assign Tasks to your team members
  • Automatically generate Microsoft Project plans using a variety of load factors
  • Track Tasks, to show what your developers are working on and identify unassigned Tasks
  • Clearly monitor Remaining Work, Velocity and Overrun.

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