Below are some of the most popular features in SpiraPlan. Click
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 | Personalized Home Page |
| Upon login to SpiraPlan®™, you are presented with a personalized ‘dashboard’ of all your key information, consolidated onto a single page for you to take immediate action. |
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| Project Summary Dashboards |
| Each project has a dashboard home-page that summarizes all of the information regarding the project into a comprehensive, easily digestible form. It provides a “one-stop-shop” for people interested in understanding the overall status and health of the project at a glance. |
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| Project Portfolio Management |
| Projects in SpiraPlan® can be organized into Project Groups that belong to a common organization, customer or division. This allows you to view a summary project group dashboard that lets you view the aggregate status of the group as whole as well as compare the relative health of the different projects in the group: |
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| Printable Reports Library |
| SpiraPlan® includes an extensive reports library that can display information such as Requirements Progress, Release Plan Status, Task Progress and Incident Status. Supported formats include HTML, XML, Word, Excel. |
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| Graphical Charts Library |
| SpiraPlan® includes a rich library of graphical charts and graphs that illustrate key metrics in the system including Project Velocity, Task Burndown, Burnup, Bug Discovery Rate, Bug Aging and Turnaround times. |
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| Requirements Management |
| SpiraPlan® provides the ability to create and manage project scope / requirements in a hierarchical organization. Requirements can be prioritized, estimated and also associated with a specific release. |
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| Requirements Elaboration (Tasks) |
| Each requirement can then be decomposed into its low-level assignable work items called ‘tasks’. Each can be separately estimated to validate the overall high-level requirement estimate. |
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| Release Planning |
| You have the ability to create a master release schedule containing all the major milestone releases together with the individual iterations – smaller releases of the system delivered every 4-6 weeks. |
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| Iteration Planning |
| Tasks developed during the requirements elaboration can be associated with specific iterations in the release schedule. The system will track the available resources for an iteration and calculate the available effort as tasks are added. |
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| Task Tracking |
| SpiraPlan® provides the ability to edit assign and track the project tasks that have been assigned to members of the project team. You can search, filter and sort the list of tasks to quickly find those that are behind schedule or are late starting: |
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| Bug |
| SpiraPlan® provides the ability to create, edit, assign, track, manage and close incidents (i.e. bugs, issues, risks, defects, enhancements) that are raised during the testing of the software system under development. |
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| Incident Entry and Modification |
| Incidents can be categorized into bugs, enhancements, issues, training items, limitations, change requests, and risks, and each type has its own specific workflow and business rules. |
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| Incident Resolution Tracking |
| As different users collaborate on the identification, verification and resolution of a particular incident, their comments and resolutions are tracked as a threaded discussion so that the case history is always available. |
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| Resource Tracking |
| Once the tasks and incidents have been scheduled against the iteration plan and assigned to the project personnel resources, you can use the Resource Tracking screens to view the total assigned workload for the members of the project and determine if any resource load balancing is necessary: |
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| Software Configuration Management (SCM) |
| SpiraPlan® allows you to link your existing software configuration management (SCM) repositories to a particular project. When this is done, you can browse the contents of the repository (folders, files and revisions) directly in the SpiraPlan® web interface, without needing to install the native SCM application. This extends the reach of the SCM repository to managers and other casual users who need to report on the source code repository. |
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| Source Code Integration |
| In addition to being able to view the contents of the source code repository, using SpiraPlan® you can link artifacts in the system to specific source code revisions. This allows you to associate implemented requirements, completed tasks or resolved defects/incidents with the corresponding code changes. This provides end-to-end traceability from requirements to software code. |
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| Document Management |
| All documents and web links uploaded to the system are available in the integrated document management system. This allows you to organize the documents into folders, categorize by document types and associate with meta-tags. Once uploaded, users can search, sort and filter the documents as well as find dynamically related items through the meta-tag hyperlinks. |
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| Document Version Control |
| Once uploaded to the central knowledge repository, revisions to the documents can be uploaded so that there is complete audit trail of all changes made to artifacts and associated documentation in the project. |
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| Customizable Incident Fields |
| You can customize each of the fields used in the Incident tracking module to suit your own business needs - including incident type, status, priority and severity. You can even associate your own color schemes with the different priorities and severities. |
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| Customizable Workflows & Notifications |
| Each of the different incident types can follow its own customized workflow that you can map to the business processes used by your organization. Each workflow consists of a customizable set of steps and transitions. You can set the security on each transition so that only the appropriate user can change the status of an incident. In addition each transition can be used to send email notifications to the detector, owner or users in a certain project group. |
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| Attachment Support |
| You can upload document attachments to Requirements, Releases, Tasks and Incidents in the system. Each of these artifacts includes an attachment view that allows users to view the existing attachments, delete an existing attachment and upload new documents from their workstation. |
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| Change History Tracking |
| All of the changes made to a particular artifact in the system (e.g. Requirement, Test Case, etc.) are tracked by SpiraTest, so that at any time you can view the history log of all the changes made to an artifact, including the date of the change, who made the change, and what information was changed. |
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| Custom Artifact Properties |
| In addition to the built-in fields that are associated with each type of artifact (Requirements, Tasks, etc.), you can also define custom properties for each type of artifact in the system, both free-text properties and those where the user has to choose from a predefined list. |
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| System / Project Administration |
| Once SpiraPlan® is set up on your web server it can be fully administered and maintained using only a web browser. No need to install complicated software or have IT staff involved every time you wish to create new project or add a user to the system. |
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| Project Management |
| SpiraPlan® allows you to easily create, edit, copy, and delete projects using a web-based interface. In addition you have the option of creating a new project using the customized settings of an existing template project. |
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| User Management |
| SpiraPlan® allows you to easily create, edit and make inactive users using a web-browser. In addition you can import user profiles from any LDAP compatible directory server (e.g. Microsoft ActiveDirectory). Once imported, SpiraPlan® will authenticate those users against that server, removing the need for users to manage passwords in multiple places. |
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| Excel Data Import |
| The web-based interface of SpiraPlan® is ideal for creating and managing requirements, releases, tasks and incidents for a new project. However when migrating requirements, releases, tasks and incidents for an existing project from another system or Microsoft Office document (e.g. Excel), it is useful to be able to load in a batch of artifacts, rather than having to manually enter them one at a time. To simplify this task, SpiraPlan® comes with a Microsoft Excel data importer that can bulk-load requirements, and incidents from a populated Excel sheet into SpiraPlan®. |
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