How SoftAgile was conceived...

While developing a project management tool for software development projects, we realized the need for requirements, test cases and defects modules, integrated with the project management application. This was the vision with which we started SoftALM  – as the tool for Application Lifecycle Management . That was in the first quarter of the year 2014.

So we built SoftALM with all modules for managing application lifecycle –such as requirements, project planning, test cases and defects. While researching, we realized that even though customer is the very reason for development of software applications, customer feedback was nevertheless the feature that was missed out by most of the ALM software . We decided to fill this gap and empower the customer to provide a feedback. Such feedback could be used as a new feature addition to the Product backlog or as a defect to be fixed or a usability suggestion. This makes SoftALM a complete end-to-end ALM software. We are currently working on integration of SoftALM with version control, configuration and test automation tools, as per feedback got from interactions with ALM professionals.

Further interactions with clients and ALM professionals at the Agile Day Conference  ’14 at Pune and Bangalore brought us to consider the following important points:

• 1. Teams working on small projects or which have a modest product line, will get weighed down by heavy weight, complex ALM tools, and won’t be truly agile!
• 2. Small teams need a lightweight 

  agile project management

   tool aiding continuous delivery, within budgets
• 3. 

  Agile tool

  s in the market currently either are at a very high cost or cover only a part of the development process, requiring one to make patchwork of series of tools

This weighs down the simple Agile development tool, that otherwise should be light and conducive to agile continuous delivery. So a lightweight tool that provide Agile Project Management based on Scrum, virtual Kanban boards, Extreme Programming (XP) and lean practices IS the need of the hour!

With SoftAgile, we intend to provide exactly the same! A simple Agile tool supporting Scrum , XP , Kanban  and Lean practices . We are also looking forward to create an integrated environment for SoftAgile with tool integrations like Microsoft TFS, Jenkins, Jira, Gits, etc.

Come and be Agile with SoftAgile!