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# Requirements Management Case Study for Honeywell
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## Introduction
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL) is an integral research, development and engineering arm of Honeywell. It provides value to Honeywell’s businesses and customers through technology, product and business solutions that meet global standards of quality, innovation and lifetime performance.
Employing diverse engineering skills, along with program management, quality assurance, systems engineering, technology and market analytics, HTSL provides business oriented total solutions to Honeywell’s businesses in the areas of Aerospace, Automation and Control Solutions, Specialty Materials and Transportation Systems.
HTSL has its headquarters in Bangalore and centers in Shanghai, Beijing, Brno, Hyderabad, and Madurai. It is one of the larger R&D outfits established by multi‐national corporations in India.
HTSL is a SEI CMMI Level 5 company, and has also attained PCMM Level 5 maturity.
## Business Scenario
At HTSL, the various groups, such as Requirement Writers, Development, QA and Project Management teams were working independently in separate silos and it was difficult to track the current status of the implementation of the requirements. Hence, a system was required wherein one could see the details of the requirements and their relationships with other artifacts.
HTSL required an application that could be used by the groups to manage the requirements, test cases, design elements, and defects. The Requirement Writers would create the requirements. These requirements would then be reviewed approved by peers and Customers. Once approved, the Development Team would implement these requirements. The development builds would then be checked into Subversion or ClearCase. The file contents of the SVN/CC files would be made available on demand through federation architecture. The QA team would generate the test cases based on the requirements. Once the test cases are executed, the defects generated would flow into JIRA.
## Challenges
The major challenge for HTSL was managing requirements. Requirements, if not managed correctly can lead to high‐level of rework throughout the project lifecycle, and team‐members also get tired of redoing the work because of requirements getting changed frequently. Besides, there is always a “question mark” on whether the product meets the approved requirements.
## Solution
Kovair Application Lifecycle Management Solution provides a rich and configurable, global platform for implementing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, collaborating on the entire development cycle and tracing implementations back to original requirements.
Kovair Application Lifecycle Management Solution ensures that all the stake holders and team members are working on the same work area, no matter where they are located, and that there are no costly last minute surprises. As a result, it is rated as a top quality application that matches Honeywell’s requirements and complies with their internal and external Requirements Management.
Kovair Application Lifecycle Management Solution was fully custom configured (codeless mouse‐click configurations) to meet Honeywell’s requirements, which included domain and safety specific challenges. The final Application Lifecycle Management Solution implemented at Honeywell consisted of the following entities or objects:
* Successful completion of a customized and complex use case scenario.
* Projects
* Requirements
* Design Elements
* Test Designs
* Test Sets
* Test Cases
* Test Steps
* Test Runs
* Defects
## Conclusion
Honeywell has achieved all their goals of Requirements Management for the REM and HTS projects by implementing Kovair Application Lifecycle Management Solution – the ALM in their organization, and are very pleased with the outcome.
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# Embedded Systems and Cloud based Kovair ALM
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## Embedded Systems solution provider increases their operational efficiency using cloud based Kovair ALM
The organization with their suite of highly efficient, extremely smart, scientifically and financially viable embedded systems solutions provide services in the FinTech, CleanTech, GovTech and Industrial Electronics sectors while supporting SaaS, PaaS and on Premise and field Opex Models. Over years, this tech company has helped organizations accelerate their journey towards digitalization.
## Their Challenges
In this organization every project starts from a Project, Product or POC request. Once a request is approved by Project Head and Quality Manager, the project gets initiated. Every project goes through the phases of Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Monitoring & Controlling and Project Closure. The organization deals with multiple types of Requirements and their corresponding designs followed by development and testing. In absence of a centralized software tool for managing all these different phases, the organization was struggling in various areas as mentioned below.
1. **Centralized tool for complete transparency:** With a mix of offline mediums like word and excel for maintaining different artifacts, it was extremely challenging for the organization to track the progress of the projects and manage quality. They needed a centralized repository for accessing the same artifacts without versioning and searching problems.
2. **Managing Requirements:** Every project in the organization starts with Product Requirements. Each Product Requirements are broken down into various other sub-level hardware and software requirements, which again go through various levels of Design and Prototypes. With requirements and specifications maintained in “traditional” office documents, achieving the traceability was difficult and, consequently, inefficient.
3. **Central Governance:** Having so many diverse teams and items to work on, the organization felt the need to establish a centralized process governance to reduce multiple redundant and overlapping jobs done by individual teams
4. **Collaboration:** The working of projects in this organizations requires the involvement of various stakeholders like Project Managers, Project Leads, Design Engineers, QA Manager, QA Engineer, Author Hardware team and Audit teams. They work on a wide range of artifacts like Requirements, Designs, Coding, Prototyping, Testing and Risk. Every team having their own way to manage the artifacts, it is challenging to establish a proper collaboration mechanism
## The Solution
With the above-mentioned challenges in hand, the organization was looking for a SAAS based ALM & PPM solution which could cater to their problems. After evaluating multiple tools, they decided to select the Kovair ALM .
Kovair ALM , the fully integrated application lifecycle management product from Kovair is a browser-based solution. Kovair ALM along with its proprietary ESB, Kovair Omnibus provides a single platform for PMO success.
### Hosted Solution
The organization was looking for a cost-effective solution over cloud to avoid any infrastructure related investment. Kovair has hosted the entire solution on Kovair cloud. These are getting accessed by users of the company from different geographical locations.
### Project Initiation & Planning
Kovair PPM is a one stop solution that delivers greater value to the organization by connecting project planning to execution. Using Kovair PPM, organizations can define strategic initiatives to portfolio to projects to their outcomes. It allows to define strategic initiatives, choose the relevant projects for execution, provide deeper insights into development, projects and programs by generating EVMs at all levels, providing valuable inputs to the management, enabling them in making data-oriented decisions.
The organization maintained their pre-project phase in Kovair ALM where every request for a new product, project or POC gets registered. These requests go through multiple level of approvals configured through Kovair’ s task-based workflow. Once a request gets approved, a project gets created using the standard project template of the organization. (example?)
Fig.1
Once a project gets created, project managers can manage all phases of project management in Kovair. Using the capability of Task Scheduler, they are doing the planning. Task scheduler of Kovair ALM allows Project Managers to do the planning with precision by providing capabilities mentioned below.
1. Supports creation of plan incrementally
2. Provides Gantt Chart allowing managers to track the critical path for a project
3. Allows to track milestones
4. Considers company and individual leaves of resources
5. Supports creation of tasks for activity owners as and when the plan gets published
6. Provides complete transparency to project managers on project progress
7. Allows project managers to compare planned vs actual in the plan in a real-time manner
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With all the above-mentioned capabilities, project managers of the organization now have much better control on the project progress and users also have better visibility to their to do list of tasks.
### Requirements and Design Management
Projects in the organization starts with Product Requirements. Each of these product requirements is categorized into multiple sub-requirements, viz. Hardware, Firmware, Software and Mechanical Requirements. All these requirements are then streamlined into their respective designs viz. Hardware, Firmware, Software and Mechanical Designs.
Kovair ALM allowed the organization to import all Requirements from their existing word documents and establish relationships between these Requirements and their corresponding Designs.
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Requirements Management module of Kovair ALM provided them some inherent benefits as mentioned below.
* Allows easy capturing of Requirements from documents using Word Import
* Facilitates maintaining different types of Requirements through entity management framework
* Supports separate attributes and relations for each type of Requirement
* Allows to enforce centralized governance through automated task-based workflow for tracking a requirement lifecycle from analysis to delivery
* Supports tracking of who, when and what of changes for audit trail
* Supports versioning of Requirements with facilities of comparing and merging versions
* Custom template
### Development Management through Connectivity with SVN
The organization is using the integration with their source control management tool SVN. Whenever a File is checked in SVN the related changeset and SVN file automatically gets synchronized to Kovair ALM. Once synchronized, these changesets gets linked to the Requirements or Defects against which the code was checked in.
Kovair comes with a SOA architected proprietary ESB platform Kovair Omnibus enabling organizations to setup an integrated ecosystem of tools without replacing the existing tools.
Other than SVN Kovair also provides integration with multiple tools as per the diagram below.
### Test & Defect Management
The organization maintains Test Cases for each type of Requirements. They capture and manage all their System, Unitand Module Test Cases as well as the mechanical inspection data. The organization was earlier managing their test cases in excel files along with the traceability with requirements. This was leading to lot of errors and missing test cases. Test coverage of requirements was also not visible to different stakeholders leaving behind lot of untested requirements. With the implementation of Kovair Integrated Test Management solution, they now have a complete visibility to all the test activities that are getting performed against the requirements. They can maintain their Test Plans containing both entry and exit criteria. On failure of every test execution a defect gets logged in Kovair. There is a complete visibility to the testing activities along with the end to end traceability from Requirements to Defects.
**Some of the inherent capabilities of Test & Defect Management by Kovair ALM are:**
* Provides single platform for your testing needs
  + Test Management
  + Test Execution
  + Test Automation through integration -with what?
  + Task Based Workflow to manage your test activities
* End to end traceability with Requirements and Defects
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### Reports and Dashboards
Kovair ALM provides built-in graphical and textual reports in Word, Excel, PDF formats and dashboards with real-time drilldown data access. It allows users to configure KPIs as per organizational need and give access to different users based on their roles and responsibilities. Kovair ALM allows users to generate pre-formatted word documents like SRS/SDD/PRD/MRD from the application.
Using all the benefits as mentioned above, the managers and senior management of the organization has got complete visibility to the progress of the Project. This real-time data has also helped the organization in the areas of early detection of errors and improve production quality.
## The Business Benefits Achieved
The organization has acknowledged that they are saving both time, cost and getting better quality with the implementation of Kovair ALM . Some of the major areas of benefit are listed below.
### Robust Requirements Management
Kovair ALM has given the Project teams what it mostly needed – an improved and uniform process for requirements and test management. It has drastically simplified the management and tracking of various types of requirements, designs, prototypes, tests and test reports.
### End to End Traceability
With the implementation of Kovair ALM , the organization achieved end to end traceability between the artifacts from Requirement to Designs to Test to Defect. which was exceedingly hard to achieve manually. Using this traceability, the project managers get accurate data on coverage of various items and provide real-time status updates on the project proceedings. They are now equipped to provide fast responses to questions like
* Which test objects are related to which requirements?
* Which change requests are impacting which requirements and test results?
* What are the different Designs that are related to the Requirements?
### Enhanced Collaboration
Using the unified platform of Kovair ALM , collaboration between the project teams became easier. Capabilities like Document View is providing users a detailed information about the requirements, tests, designs, etc. while using the Traceability View, users can view the entire chain of linked artifacts that are related to one another and clearly track the coverage and progress of the mission.
The real-time information from Kovair over a web-based interface along with email notifications, facilitates the acceleration of work processes that has resulted in significant improvement in the communication and collaboration among the different team members.
Using Kovair ALM in conjunction with Omnibus, the organization has successfully implemented a fully integrated ALM environment. With this implementation, the organization has seen a substantial growth both in quality and productivity. Stakeholders from different teams have recognized the benefits of Kovair’s ALM implementation. Some of the areas where the organization have seen significant benefits are:
* Automation of standard operating procedures and working process enabling controlled project execution
* Significant reduction in Issues improving product quality
* Better release predictability with the help of real-time reports and dashboards
* Visibility of complete coverage through traceability helping in early detection of gaps & errors
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