Lighthouse 5.0 links PPM with life-cycle management
January 13, 2009 —
Artifact Software, an online software project specialist, has added project and portfolio management (PPM) capabilities to its software-as-a-service project management product.
Lighthouse 5.0, released last week, now has PPM capabilities integrated with the product’s life-cycle management features. Lighthouse offers professionals working on software projects real-time traceability, project metrics and collaboration capabilities, according to Artifact executives.
Mark Wesker, president and CEO of Artifact, called Lighthouse a “Salesforce.com for software projects,” as it is an all-in-one system that can manage project artifacts, such as requirements, changes and test cases, along with project plans, resources and schedules.
“A lot of software project teams are forced to have one tool for project planning, another tool for requirements, another tool for defects, and what you get is this kind of disconnected patchwork quilt of tools,” Wesker said in talking about other companies'
products. “You can’t bring all your project data together in one system, and that’s really our key message.”
Lighthouse 5.0 can now use resource tracking to plan projects. Lighthouse has always been capable of importing Microsoft’s Project software for project management, but Wesker said that doing so is no longer necessary in the new version of Lighthouse. It is still possible to import Microsoft Project, but project plans can now be created directly in Lighthouse.
When asked the main benefit that software developers can get from the combination of PPM with life-cycle management, Wesker said that by having all the information in one system, it is easier for developers to understand the traceability of a particular item.
“Perhaps I’m working on a bug,” he said. “Well, what test case produced that bug? What requirement was being tested when that bug occurred? Developers are given the ability to really see the history of items and what happens with them.”
Lighthouse 5.0’s linking capabilities and ability to convert requirements into test cases make it easier for developers to do their job, Wesker said. Failed test cases are converted into defects, so when a user is presented with a defect, he or she will see the test case that was run and the requirement that was being tested. Software teams can collaborate in Lighthouse 5.0 to fix defects.
Wesker said that, most of the time, software project team members spend a lot of time “working in the dark” because their data is all over the place. “Shouldn’t all your project data be in one place?” he said. “Should it really be in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, e-mail inboxes, defect tracking systems? How do we correlate all that information when it’s all over the place? Lighthouse brings a pretty simple benefit. It gives all that data in one system.”
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