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Mariner to Voyage PPM Seas


By Jeff Feinman
May 15, 2007 — 
Serena was expected to introduce on May 14 what it’s calling the first integrated project and portfolio management (PPM) solution, Serena Mariner, with capabilities that provide project costs and benefits, along with application development and maintenance costs.

In the past, criticism of project management has focused on its inability to solve complications in delivery, or give accurate reads on the progress of a software project. As such, software tools vendors were slow to work this feature set into their offerings.

“Project management often reports on how much people say they’ve done, but it doesn’t really understand how much they have done,” noted Carey Schwaber, senior analyst with Forrester.

When asked why PPM has been an afterthought in the application life cycle, Matt DiMaria, Serena’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said, “The data that was related to projects was really [manually] extracted from or reported by applications development, and then transferred into the project management infrastructure. Now the tools have matured in project management, so there’s a huge opportunity to automate most of that activity.”

According to DiMaria, Serena Mariner is the only PPM offering that provides complete visibility of all the key metrics in a project throughout the application life cycle. Some of those key metrics, he said, include deliverable status, demand management, financial metrics and project management. The goal is to enable IT to put the right people into the projects for which they are most qualified, he said.

Jon Scumniotales, vice president of products for Serena, said that reports and analytical views come prepackaged with the application. “The key thing with Mariner is that these are reports of live data, so IT and business people can drill down and view issues with the portfolio, projects at risk and actual defects,” he said.

Serena Mariner offers packaged integrations to other Serena tools, including Dimensions 10, the company’s core application development tool, and the TeamTrack IT process manager.


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