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eXtreme Programing (XP) is an approach to software development, based
upon the values of simplicity, communication, feedback, and courage. It
works by bringing the whole team together in the presence of simple
practices, with enough feedback to enable the team to see where they are
and to tune the practices to their unique situation. Within eXtreme
Programing development, scope is the most important variable to be aware
of. If you actively manage scope, you can provide managers and customers
with control over cost, quality and time.
The eXtreme Programing approach therefore gives management true control
over software development. You can choose features within projects, and
even across projects, for maximum business value. You can package features
into as many small releases as you want, each one complete, fully tested,
reliable.
eXtreme Programing scope management actually lets you deliver the system
your customer wants at the end of the project, not the one they thought
they wanted at the start of the project. This represents a hefty return on
investment but can be difficult to achieve without an accurate
quantitative view of development.
Select Scope Manager automates the management of your eXtreme Programing
projects without impacting the velocity of your programmers. Documenting
your stories, estimating them and allocating them to releases has never
been easier.
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Solution Breakdown |
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Bring the team together |
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Select Scope Manager is multi-user and collaborative,
and supports multi-project and cross-project work, bringing your team
together. |
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Decide on scope and priorities |
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Select Scope Manager's "New Increment" wizard allows
different scope scenarios to be examined, the "manage scope" features
gives overall control over scope with sorting by priority, category,
business significance. Quickly publish roadmaps for the business to
elicit feedback about scope and priorities. |
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Estimate cost and schedule |
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If you're not using estimates to decide scope then what
are you using? Estimates are integral to Select Scope Manager and we
support different estimating models, estimation formulae and estimate
confidence. |
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Give everyone involved confidence that
the system can actually be done |
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Also part of the Select Scope Manager, confidence isn't
treated as a binary condition ("yes I am confident" versus "we're
doomed!") - Scope Manager applies different load factors based on the
confidence of the estimate (or parts of estimate). |
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Provide a benchmark for feedback,
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Measuring velocity (for
the project, the team and the individual).
How much overtime is being done.
How much time is spent on none essential tasks.
Items which are overrunning are tracked.
Remaining work is shown (by project and by team). |
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