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Borland® TeamDefine™
DATA SHEET
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
All failed software projects have one thing in common – poorly
understood requirements. When software applications fail to
deliver, they don’t always fail in their entirety of course. Quite
often it’s a case of simply not delivering enough of what really
matters, and doing so on time, which causes these projects to
be branded as failures. The challenge for businesses relying on
software to deliver critical competitive advantage, or simply
streamlining their operational efficiency, is quite often determined
by the degree said business understands where the most value
lies in their development efforts and subsequently focusing
their software development efforts on the most “bang for buck”
activities. This is the problem area which requirements definition
(RD) as a key practice area sets out to address.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
TeamDefine™ excels in its ability to help customers discover and
define application requirements in a visual and interactive manner
using scenarios and simulations as the primary exploration
tools. Designed to facilitate the elicitation process TeamDefine
enable stakeholders to collaborate effectively so that projects can
be delivered on time, within budget, and with greater customer
satisfaction. Interactive simulations and visual scenarios can be
captured and easily validated giving business and IT a common
language for clear direction. Simulations come to life with realistic
data and embedded business logic, providing stakeholders a fast
way of seeing what they are really asking for and finding what may
be missing before coding begins. This allows requirements to be
feedback-cycled quickly and truly validated, eliminating costly
rework downstream. Finally, the requirements generated from
TeamDefine can be managed with CaliberRM and therefore traced
throughout the project lifecycle, enabling software development
teams to assess impact and respond rapidly to ever-changing
requests without jeopardizing project success.
KEY BENEFITS
DETAILED FEATURE OVERVIEW
TeamDefine is designed to help your teams bring their software
requirements to life ensuring that requirements are defined
completely and unambiguously. Business users and analysts can
now collaborate to assemble interactive simulations and visual
scenarios in a web-based client. TeamDefine caters to four process
areas of requirements definition:
Elicitation – Provide business users and analysts with a simple
way to collaboratively create simulations that bring requirements
to life and inspire innovation. The result is better communication
and correct requirements from the start.
Analysis – Through simulation and scenario review users can
identify significant business value in the shortest time possible.
This task is simplified greatly by easy connectivity and contextual
feedback features.
Specification – Iteratively and incrementally add detail to
screens, logic and data in simulations, connect existing resources
to visual scenarios and link everything to requirements. This
ensures that all stakeholders have the information they need to
understand quickly and effectively.
Validation – Business stakeholders can clearly envision the
system by reviewing simulations, scenarios and requirements
through interaction. All feedback is captured and time stamped
for the team to review, respond and validate. This leads to accurate
and complete requirements that truly meet the business needs.
TeamDefine offer the following benefits:
Visualization through simulation provides a foundation for
innovation and a force multiplier for all downstream IT
development investments by ensuring the right “thing” gets built
every time
TeamDefine helps customers reduce rework, eliminates time
wasted building non-used features, speeds time to market for
new capability and helps CIO/SVP IT better optimize their
project portfolios.
No syncing, importing or exporting of software requirements, as
items are created in one product, they immediately appear in the
other when used in conjunction with CaliberRM
Complete integration of all artifacts, enabling you to associate
requirements to screens, data fields, and process items - even
down to individual buttons - ensuring end-to-end visibility for
all software requirements
Designed to bring speed and agility to the requirements
definition process in a user friendly fashion
Real time impact analysis and feedback collection
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Borland® TeamDefine™
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System
Supported platforms include Windows 2003
Server and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux™ 2.0
Memory
2 GB of memory is recommended (3 GB is
recommended if collocated with CaliberRM
server)
Hard Disk Space
10 GB of disk space is recommended
Browsers
Internet Explorer® 6, Internet Explorer 7,
Internet Explorer 8, and Firefox® 3
Port Requirements
Default installation assumes the availability of Port
8080. TeamDefine can be reconfigured to use a
different port if this creates a conflict.
Borland is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibility
to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process.
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