How can RTIMETM help me?
Commercial Software Company
Product Managers
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RTIME TM For Commercial Software Companies
Product Managers
- Are you frustrated managing too many requirements, with too few resources and having difficulty gaining consensus on prioritization?
- Do you have trouble getting timely estimates out of your overburdened development team even when crucial features that a key customer demands is at stake?
- When you do have to make changes to features in a release, are you less confident that you will have what was really required, delivered on time with acceptable quality?
- Do you find out too late that critical features that were promised in a release will be delayed?
- Do you wish you had more time for strategic activities?
- Do you feel you spend way too many hours keeping plans up to date, developing progress reports and making presentations about project status?
- Have you looked at software lifecycle management tools from other vendors and found them to be overly elaborate and too expensive for your needs?
Unlike other software and requirements management tools, RTIME solves these common problems without burdening you or your organization with the need for heavyweight, expensive, multi-module systems that makes you a slave to a cumbersome process. RTIME was designed and developed by professionals like you that understand that any tool for planning and managing critical aspects of software development needs to have an intuitive user interface, provide rapid navigation, and be quick to implement and have your team adopt. That’s why RTIME’s capabilities can be equally beneficial if used as a feature planning and requirements management tool, a software quality management tool or a complete software lifecycle management tool. And in our experience, once one of your project teams starts using RTIME, all your teams will see the benefits and quickly adopt it.
With RTIME you can:
- Easily manage a backlog of requirements for one or more products.
- Quickly perform trade-off analysis to determine prioritization based on cost, development capacity and other market and business drivers, backing-up your recommendations.
- Maintain continuity in the way requirements are gathered and documented.
- Maintain a complete requirements change history and easily track requirements through to delivery.
- Have users complete their own tasks on-line keeping project plans up to date.
- Quickly produce numerous reports for yourself and management that can be scheduled for delivery through e-mail.
- Gather requirements from customers and other internal stakeholders with a super-simplified web-interface.
- Easily manage dependencies, issues and have complete requirement traceability.
RTIME TM For Commercial Software Companies
Software Executives
- Are you not always clear on what development 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 wish your team was more agile and could react to market and customer demands more quickly?
- Are you hearing that knowledge sharing issues between teams is causing duplicate efforts?
- Do you have all the information you need to quickly make decisions about your products and investments?
- Are you hesitant to ask for more frequent status updates because you know it could rob cycles from needed development time?
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 Development Lifecycle Tool 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 are 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 a 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 and overall SDLC while supporting comprehensive dashboard reporting in one easy to implement product. RTIME’s single module design gives you the information you need to more effectively make decisions, improve agility and time to market, and assure delivery of quality software that you need to remain competitive.
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.
RTIME TM For Commercial Software Companies
Development and QA 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 changes in a timely fashion?
- Do you spend too much time explaining to customers or sales why they can’t have what they need when they were promised it?
- 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 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?
RTIME offers a practical alternative that gets you up and running with a single module implementation that has been optimized over years of interaction with demanding customers. Once an exclusive tool used by experts in a consulting practice, RTIME is now available to your organization. It provides all the standard functions you need with custom fields available for the few items that might be unique to your operation.
What’s the RTIME Difference?
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.
Smaller tool companies excel in certain areas, but only RTIME offers all the essentials to manage the major aspects of requirements, development and QA while supporting comprehensive dashboard reporting in one easy to implement tool that will be rapidly installed and adopted.
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, your team will be collaborating better than 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, applications 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 chat capability that instantly links you to the people associated with each element.
- Be only one click to My Projects, My Tests, My Tasks, Chat, Search.
- Use existing templates for any methodology: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, RUP and additional variants, or create your own.
RTIME TM For Commercial Software Companies
Product Marketing Managers
- Do you find yourself blindsided by release schedule and feature content changes that throws off all of your planned campaigns?
- Do you worry that the competition is reacting faster to the market than your company?
- Do you find that critical features that were promised in a release are delayed or missing?
- Do you find that your collaboration level with product management is lower than you would like?
- Is the size of the feature backlog growing while your confidence ebbs that your priorities for those requirements are well understood by others?
- Were you told that you had sign-off authority on release content but that the process that was supposed to enforce this never materialized?
Nothing can make marketing of software more challenging than poorly managed requirements that impact major delivery schedules. That’s especially true when companies try to work through the often delicate balance between key customer requirements and general market needs. As a product marketing manager, you’re a key communicator, both inbound from market research and outbound in your campaigns, between your company and the marketplace. In that role you need to be fully synchronized and directly collaborating with Product Managers and other stakeholders. And you need to and be given authority in a structured process for the critical approvals that impact your product’s success in the marketplace.
With RTIME you can:
- Be authorized to enter, review, prioritize, and submit changes to requirements pertinent to your products.
- Get notifications of signoff requests, approvals and changes when they occur.
- Get access to reports showing current release schedules and feature content.
- Have a context sensitive SmartChat capability that instantly links you to the people associated with each element (requirement, issue, release etc.) you are currently viewing.
- Get more accurate and timely estimates for new requirement development cost and schedule to help you make decisions on feature priority and market timing..
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