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True Enterprise Agile
Agile development promises faster releases, better customer alignment, higher quality, and lower development costs – however, it can be tough to scale Agile for an enterprise. MKS Integrity provides the flexibility, transparency and collaboration needed for Agile while ensuring management oversight across both Agile and traditional teams across the enterprise.
Why choose MKS Integrity to power your Agile transformation?
Agile that fits your organization, aligned with your priorities
- A standard Agile solution template, rapidly tailored to your unique needs/industry
- Adopt Agile methodologies while also managing traditional development
- A proven, powerful process engine for control without constraint
A solution that goes beyond Agile project management
- Out of the box transparency from user story to source code to testing & release
- A single source of truth for collaboration among interdependent teams
- No additional modules or integrations required
Agile that really scales across the enterprise
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Intelligent ALM solutions, built on MKS Integrity, are ideally suited to the needs of Agile in the enterprise.
Agile that fits your organization
In many enterprises, existing environments are well established and complex. The experience and skill levels of the development organization may vary widely (and a certain amount of turnover is inevitable). Implementing an Agile approach in the enterprise context involves a significant shift in culture, changing many behaviors and practices.
Most enterprises will require a solution that effectively supports traditional methodologies as well as Agile processes. A transition to Agile does not happen in a vacuum, nor in a single moment of time (and some projects/teams may never move to Agile).
Unlike other solutions that only address Agile needs, MKS Integrity is able to address Agile simultaneously with other methodologies. Our customers can adopt Agile in the way that best fits their organization, whether that means a hybrid model or a team-by-team transformation into ‘pure’ Agile.
A standard Agile solution template, rapidly tailored to your unique needs/industry
- standard scrum-based template provides out-of-the-box Agile readiness
- epic & user stories, backlogs, burn-down charts and other assets
- industry solutions provide best practices and capabilities
Adopt Agile methodologies while also managing traditional development
- both Agile and traditional development can coexist on the same solution
- incrementally apply Agile principles while maintaining enterprise transparency
- simplify the transition from traditional processes and practices to more Agile ones
A proven, powerful process engine for control without constraint
- a process engine which supports an unlimited number of methodologies
- rule-based process automation can enforce best practices (i.e. requiring code changes be associated with a task, or user stories must have tests defined to validate them)
- rapidly adapt processes as your organization continues to evolve
Going beyond Agile project management
The Agile Manifesto advises us to “value individuals and interactions over processes and tools” but this becomes difficult when using disparate tools to manage different parts of the application lifecycle.
The Agile emphasis on cross-functional teams working in a highly collaborative manner means that enterprise adoption of Agile practices requires a true Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approach to software development; this demands coordinated management of all development activities, emphasizing the interrelated nature of development activities and assets (which is why it complements Agile so well).
MKS Integrity is ideally suited to address the needs of enterprise Agile because it is a complete ALM solution that goes beyond project management to give you the practical capability you need for software development across entire software development lifecycle (rather than trying to integrate a project management tool with multiple development point tools). The net result is that the metrics needed by management can be collected without getting in the way of actual work being done by developers.
Out of the box transparency from user story to source code to testing
- a single platform with relationships among all assets and activities
- understand the impact of changes, delays or defects (i.e. - test cases are created with links to associated user stories; as defects are uncovered they are associated with a backlog)
- competence to address the entire application lifecycle, from demand to release
A single source of truth for collaboration among interdependent teams
- no more silos; one solution manages everything from source code to test cases and user stories
- configuration management, collaboration and advanced reuse across all assets
- natural support for Agile testing; no need to switch applications
No additional modules or integrations required
- a true enterprise solution, complete ALM capability is included to manage everything from user stories to source code control, to test management and on to deployment
- integrations to point tools and legacy products are available to ease deployment & transitions to a more coherent ALM approach
Agile that really scales
With a small and co-located team, you can maintain and disseminate information with sticky notes, index cards and white boards. Face-to-face conversations suffice for answering questions and coordinating activities for these small teams. The scale and complexity of the enterprise environment requires more support than simple tools and informal methods can provide.
Implementing Agile practices within large enterprise environments involves more than just scaling the number of people working on the project. Enterprise environments introduce a number of different scalability issues: team size, distributed sites, compliance requirements, domain or product complexity, technological complexity and organizational distribution (to name but a few). Adequately supporting large distributed Agile teams working on such complex product lines requires enterprise ALM solutions.
Deploy across thousands of users, manage at the appropriate level
- MKS Integrity not only scales to thousands of users on the same instance, but supports distributed administration at the appropriate level: team, release, product or other organizational unit
- process definition is via a graphical workflow modeler, for refinement or augmentation of processes with minimal effort
Serve up real-time metrics to monitor without admin overhead
- reporting and searching is part of the core engine, and works directly off the live operational data to provide real-time status.
- a single source of truth serves up real-time metrics to empower the Agile PMO
- interactions and activities can be captured automatically, without additional demands on the developers
Distributed, heterogeneous development support with central control
- MKS Integrity seamlessly bridges disparity across Agile and traditional methods, as well as IDEs, locations, and other enterprise solutions
- MKS Integrity has a Federated Server Architecture (FSA) to support 24/7 global development organizations while maintaining centralized control & administration
Agile Resources from MKS
Whitepaper: Coexisting with Other Approaches (a Chapter from Mike Cohn's book 'Succeeding with Agile')
Whitepaper: Agile Development Doesn't Have to Mean Fragile Enterprise Process
Webinar: Scaling Agile with MKS Integrity for Application Lifecycle Management
Webinar: Scaling Scrum Across the Enterprise – What’s the Secret?
Webinar: Incorporate Agile Techniques To Better Meet Business Needs
Webinar: Intelligent ALM™: A Prerequisite for Successful Enterprise Agile
Analyst Report: Just Do It - Modernize Your Requirements Practices (Forrester)
