SD - Software Development

The Software Development module supports a range of processes related to the creation and deployment of software projects and products. The module is suitable for both internal IT departments and IT service companies.

Software Development Processes

• Software Project Scheduling and Planning:
  Planning and scheduling of software development using ]po[ Project Management
  
  
• Software Project Tracking:
  Tracking of software project schedules and resource consumption.
  
  
• [Software Version & Change Management]:
  Tracking changes in software versions and association of changes with projects, task, users and artefacts.
  
  
• [Software Defect & Bug Management]:
  Tracking of software defects and correlating defects to changes in the software.
  
  
• Software Release Management:
  Grouping of software changes into releases and tracking the quality control and approval processes before the release of the updates.
  

Specific Support for IT Software Development

]po[ supports software development by its standard

• project management module, extended by an
  
• integration with CVS and other version control systems, a
• configuration database, a standard
  
• bug tracker, a
• release management package and the generic
  
• helpdesk that can be configured to support specific defect management workflows. 

All these processes are integrated with each other and with the

• financial module, allowing for real-time insight into the status software development processes and for visibility into the performance drivers.

All processes can be configured using

• Dynamic fields to extend business objects,
• Dynamic Petri-Net workflows to track the lifecycle of objects and the
  
• Category configuration system to configure the states and types of business objects.
  

References

Related Object Types 

• Project

Related Packages

• CVS and other version control system integration
• Release management
• Bug-Tracker
• Helpdesk
• Configuration Database
  

Related Modules

• Project Management
  
• Finance