Introducing SoftAgile™ from JamBuster.... or "Why one more Agile Tool?" as an ALM analyst asked.

We at JamBuster Team are very proud to introduce our new Agile Tool, SoftAgile™, over next week!!!

SoftAgile™ was born in a very counter intuitive way.

In 2014, we saw that to build an application required using multiple ALM tools: product or backlog definition tool, project planning, sprint & task management, testing, defect & issue management, release management along with integrations to IDE and SCM tools. It is almost like a ALM quilt made of patchwork of tools!

One of the big challenges with such patchy ALM is that you have to keep on switching between different tools, and thus an integrated view of the project is almost impossible.

So we envisioned an end-to-end agile ALM platform that will have five modules: define product, plan program, develop software, verify quality & customer support. We named it SoftALM^®

We got lot of interest from a software product companies to become our beta partners. And their feedback started to bring polish to our vision of SoftALM^®.

And then it stuck to us that the SoftALM^® is most suitable to either Software Product companies or those who build applications for their businesses and customers, like insurance, banking or e-retailer. The focus here is developing software as a product.

The feedback from our software services beta partner, was of course, by now understandable. They felt SoftALM^® was a bit too product centric for their use.

Service companies and start-ups suggested could we change the focus more to project and customer?

This meant almost taking out product axis and replacing it with customer, project and application focus. This was the birth of SoftAgile™. It is thus counter intuitive that we would built a big Agile ALM platform for product focus, and then carved out a smaller application from it. Of course, SoftAgile™ therefore benefitted from instant enterprise scalability.

Turned out, the SoftALM^® was built so logically that it's transformation to SoftAgile™ was swift. We took about 15 months to build SoftALM^®. SoftAgile™ took only 2 months to be carved out!

So you can see why we built these two tools!

1. To tailor each agile tool as per product (SoftALM^®) vs project (SoftAgile™) focus of end users.
2. To provide integrated applications that provides end-to-end capabilities for either of these end user groups.
3. To provide tighter integration between ALM attributes, that reduces rework and provide total visibility across product and project axes.

Well, when was the last time an Agile ALM software gave you a dashboard that combined your entire project work flow, like our DashFlow™ - the project dashboard in SoftAgile™? This is how we saw integration working for you.

During these 2 years, we discovered an another view of iterative agile-namely improving software through feedback over multiple early and many releases... more like crafting software!!!!

So now you can unleash the power of your agile team to craft your next great software withSoftAgile™!

Take a tour of our SoftAgile™.

Discovering Agile Application Lifecycle Management

When I was researching Agile Application Lifecycle Management, I realized that there is no standard definition of it. About 80 to 100 vendors offer 500+, what they call “Agile ALM solutions or part of their ALM offerings”. Most of these offerings differed from each other in terms of their focus and what they thought an ALM should be like! Some focused on Product and Project Management, others on Software Development and Delivery.

Few of the prominent ones focused on providing a solution that could speedup quality delivery but missed out on an important part of ALM which was Customer Support! For Example: HP’s ALM solution leverages its niche ‘Quality Center’, Atlassian’s focus being ‘Defect Management’, Microsoft combines VS’s ‘Code Development’ with TFS and SmartBear built their ALM complete by combining DevComplete and QAComplete.

And we, being a Agile software product company realized that it isn’t really possible to stay ahead of the game if you are lacking in product support! That’s when Team JamBuster, having an experience of managing 100 + outsourcing projects worldwide, realized the need for a truly end-to-end solution for the market of Software App Lifecycle Development which would change the market dynamics. 

We observe from our vantage point that vendors get the software firms to make a quilt or patchwork of their applications that would help manage the App Lifecycle. This complex juggling between tools makes it even more difficult to collaborate and deliver projects before deadlines.

We are launching SoftALM™ to bring the focus on Agile ALM, instead of having to maintain and integrate a bunch of software to manage your ALM! Just have one software doing it for you at one fourth the cost! Achieve an Integrated Management of Product, Project, Software, Quality and Support all on a single platform. 

Sounds good??

Contact us at info@jambuster.in to get a Free Demo on your computer or smartphone and experience how SoftALM ™ works its magic on your App Development Lifecycle!