There is a new and informative paper called “The ‘Best of Breed’Agile ALM Solution” by Ben Weatherall, configuration manager at PDX, Inc. This paper provides great insight into AgileCycle; excerpts are shared below.
“With the release of AgileCycle, it seems to be the year Agile ALM will finally be a reality! So what are the minimum requirements for an ALM solution for Agile? There needs to be an Agile-specific management system, a workflow engine, a version control system, a defect and enhancement tracking system and a build management system. And each of these components need to be supplied by vendors that have good reputations and “corporate” stability, be responsive to user requests for change and defect resolution and be considered among the “Best of Breed” in their market niche.”
“So forming a “Best of Breed” ALM solution from multiple vendor components would be something like having AnthillPro manage the overall ALM framework and the builds while AccuRev manages the version control, changes tracking and DIET functions and Rally handles the Agile-specific management stuff and helps control the content and organization of the reported defects and announcements.”
“With the advent of AgileCycle, we finally have a solution where the various vendors cooperate in creating an out-of-the-box integration tailored to Agile development. All of them supporting it is a dream come true.”
Dream come true? AccuRev thinks so too.
To read the complete version of “The ‘Best of Breed’ Agile ALM Solution” by Ben Weatherall, see AccuRev’s Product Reviews.
