How can RTIME^TM   help me?        

IT Organizations

     Project Manager
     Executives
     QA Managers
     Development Managers

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RTIME ^TM  For IT Organizations         

Project Managers        

• Do you find out too late that critical features that were promised will be delayed in development or QA?
• Do you believe that your signoff process needs to be more formal and organized?
• Are you spending too much time developing progress reports for management and the end user community?
• Do you find that key project documents that are shared between your organization, development, business analysts and others are difficult to locate and are too often the wrong version?
• Have you ever had to halt project activity for one or multiple days just because you need to assess the impacts of proposed changes?
• Are you concerned that you will have to spend too much time organizing and trying to do knowledge transfer for others once you do have an opportunity to move on to new projects?

As a project manager, you feel the full weight of execution success for projects. But in order to be successful, you need to be well connected with all of the stakeholders and often you need to direct the activity of others even though they do not report to you. If you are only using standard Office tools and Email to get your work done, you’re probably thinking that there is a better way.

There is.

RTIME is specifically designed to help you collaborate, stay organized, and eliminate many of the loose ends that make managing software projects such a challenge. It integrates to standard tools like Outlook, Lotus Notes and Microsoft Project and can link to data from other tools that might be used in Development and QA. It allows you as project manager to quickly access many different pieces of project information, view and change their status, make approvals, identify logjams, be notified of changes, understand the impact of suggested changes, get powerful reporting and much more.

What is the RTIME difference?

RTIME’s design philosophy places a high premium on usability and adoptability by the people who will use it every day. Lack of internal user acceptance is in fact the major reason why software development lifecycle products fail. Major IT companies offer very elaborate set of ‘integrated’ products (often from recently acquired companies) where the risk is high that even after all the time and expense of implementation and training, user adoption rates are lower than needed, and that the yield and quality of information in the ‘integrated’ dashboard is lacking. (Don’t take our word for it. Just ask numerous, large 3rd party integration companies that have built large services practices stepping in to ‘save’ these deployments when the primary software supplier couldn’t make it work.)

RTIME sets itself off from smaller independent software company tools by being the only one in its class to manage all the major aspects of requirements, development, and QA while providing comprehensive dashboard reporting in one easy to implement product. RTIME’s unique appliance delivery method is fast to install and its streamlined UI readily adopted, so everyone in your project communities can quickly become more effective.

With RTIME you can:

• Have users complete their own tasks on-line keeping project plans up to date dynamically generating MS Project Plans if desired.
• Quickly produce numerous reports for yourself and management that can be scheduled for delivery to e-mail.
• Easily manage dependencies, issues and have complete requirement traceability.
• Provide and receive instant notification of changes, approvals and status changes to requirements, tests and other elements that impact your projects.
• Maintain a complete audit log for all changes to significantly reduce finger-pointing.
• Rapidly navigate with a minimum of keystrokes to the customer project, phase, requirement, issue, dependency, test case, or document you need and see the full status of that element.
• Immediately trace back any element to the applicable requirement.
• Have a context sensitive, fully audited chat capability that instantly links you to the customers and employees associated with each element.

Executives        

• Do you have all the information you need to quickly make decisions about your projects?
• Are you hesitant to ask for more frequent status updates because you know it could rob cycles from needed development time and QA time?
• Are you not always clear on what resource investments are being made and why?
• Are your teams too often missing major milestones and release dates?
• Is knowledge retention an issue as members leave the organization?
• Do you know you need more discipline and best practice instituted, but wary that it will slow down your staff and stifle creativity?
• Do you wish your team was more agile and could react to changes more readily?
• Are you hearing that knowledge sharing issues between teams is causing duplicate efforts?
• Do you fear that you don’t have the right level of controls and documentation to satisfy audit and/or Sarbanes-Oxley?

RTIME solves these problems with a minimum of risk. It gives your team members and their managers what they need to work more efficiently and productively. It gives you visibility into key aspects of their activity without imposing additional work on your staff. And before any expense, RTIME can be evaluated and trialed for free to be certain of its effectiveness.

How is RTIME different?

RTIME’s design philosophy places a high premium on usability and adoptability by the people who will use it every day. Lack of internal user acceptance is in fact the major reason why software lifecycle management implementations often fail. Major IT companies offer very elaborate products where the risk is high that even after all the time and expense of implementation and training, user adoption rates will be lower than needed, and the quality and quantity of information in the ‘integrated’ dashboard is low. (Don’t take our word for it. Just ask numerous, large 3rd party integration companies that have built large services practices stepping in to ‘save’ these projects when the primary software supplier can’t make it work.)

RTIME sets itself off from smaller independent software company tools by being the only one in its class to manage the major aspects of requirements, development, QA while supporting comprehensive dashboard reporting in one easy to implement product. RTIME was designed to be installed, operational and adopted with only a short, standard, startup service recommended for training and turn up. Since RTIME was created by a consulting services company that specializes projects centered around RTIME, you can feel confident that any services you do elect will be well focused and effective.

With RTIME you can:

• Quickly call up reports (or have them scheduled periodically for automatic generation and Email delivery) for key information like-
• Software quality status and trend
• Development and QA ‘logjam’ issues report
• Estimates for proposed changes
• Development Cost and Variance
• Understand with much more clarity the tradeoffs in how your resources are invested.
• Be confident that your teams are working and collaborating with new levels of efficiency
• Get standard metrics across projects that allow you to spot high level trends
• Add process and structure without burdening staff with a new system (yet another project) or a heavyweight process

QA Managers        

• Is it often the case that you don’t receive requirements or changes with enough time to allow proper estimation of setup, script development and test time, and you’re often dismayed to discover test deadlines that were arbitrarily imposed?
• Your test coverage and bug tracking tools are key pieces of automation you rely on. But do you find that the information they contain isn’t integrated into the larger management picture that should be used for planning?
• If your budget and resources simply don’t allow for the full coverage testing needed for a scheduled release, do you have a way to quickly gain consensus on testing priorities? Do you struggle to justify additional resources?
• Do you suspect that much of the re-testing that your team working on is due to upstream recurring problems that you could isolate and identify if only you had end-to-end traceability?

RTIME is especially adept making sure that QA estimation is part of the full lifecycle planning. In a perfect example of the difference RTIME can make, Project Managers at one large RTIME financial customer did not appreciate the full implication of testing needs until predictive reports that RTIME generated showed a huge variance from a coarse grain method that was employed. After RTIME estimates proved accurate, RTIME was put in place for all their projects.

Placing QA into consideration in this way is just one example of the benefits of having an end-to-end tool. We understand your issues and we know that any tool is only effective if it’s easy to use, adds value and is adopted by the whole project community. It’s a significant area of difference with RTIME. Many end-to-end tool offerings are huge efforts in their own right to implement because their multi-module tools that can require months to install, configure and train staff on.

RTIME is just one comprehensive module that’s proven to be easy to installed and readily adopted. We’ve optimized and streamlined to be sure that we’ve minimized keystrokes, clicks and input requirements and maximized response time, navigation and report value. And that’s why most of our customer’s QA Managers and their staff ‘live-in’ the RTIME environment and keep RTIME active on their desktops.

It’s easy to trial RTIME. If you do, you’ll understand why we placed QA in the ‘QAVantage’ company name. With RTIME you can:

• See requirements and their changes progress from initial submission, through approval and development.
• Be notified automatically of any changes to approved requirements.
• Enable you to assess the level-of-effort for all phases of testing so that planning estimates are realistic.
• Ensure test case coverage and complete requirement traceability.
• Readily tie into existing bug tracking tools.
• Track both manual and automated test cases and results from a single environment.
• Have a context sensitive, fully audited SmartChat capability that instantly links you to the people associated with each element.
• Get extensive reporting that helps you optimize your department’s efficiency.
• Be only one click to My Projects, My Tests, My Tasks, SmartChat, and Search.

Development Managers        

• Do you find yourself blindsided by additional work that was never estimated that throws off all of your schedules?
• Are you weary of constant resource scheduling and reassignment that you feel could have been avoided if you only knew about requirements changes in a timely fashion?
• Do you spend too much time explaining to Project Managers or Business Sponsors why they can’t have what they need when they expect it?
• Are you frustrated by an inability to clearly convey and justify additional resources based on requested changes?
• Have you looked at software lifecycle management tools from others and worry that the long set-up, training and implementation time will take precious cycles away from your staff when the pressure to be more agile is greater than ever?

In contrast, major IT companies have been snapping up software development lifecycle tool vendors in order to round out their SDLC offering. Unfortunately, their portfolio of ‘integrated’ tools is now so extensive that implementing even a subset of these products can be a major endeavor that often requires months of preparation and training just to get off the ground. With all of the modules to configure, UIs to customize, databases to establish and staff to train, it’s no wonder a 3rd part consulting industry has grown up around all of this activity for those products.

Smaller tool companies excel in certain areas, but only RTIME offers all the essentials to manage the major aspects of requirements, development, QA and comprehensive dashboard reporting in one easy to implement tool that will be rapidly adopted and deployed anywhere on an easy to install appliance.

By trialing RTIME in advance, you have a low risk way to be certain that your teams will have a tool that they can embrace and adopt quickly. And with RTIME’s context sensitive, fully audited SmartChat feature, you team will be collaborating better that ever.

With RTIME you can:

• Be notified the instant that changes and approvals are made to requirements, tests and other elements that impact your projects and tasks.
• Rapidly navigate with a minimum of keystrokes to the project, phase, requirement, issue, dependency, test case, or document you need and see the full status of that element.
• Always know what requirements are approved and ready for development; know what modules are ready for test.
• Easily see the impact on LOE with requirement additions or changes.
• Quickly access and generate multiple levels of reporting.
• Always trace back any element to requirements.
• Have a context sensitive, fully audited SmartChat capability that instantly links you to the people associated with each element.
• Be only one click to My Projects, My Tests, My Tasks, SmartChat, and Search.
• Use existing templates for any methodology: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, RUP and additional variants, or create your own.