Archive for 2010

Come to World Usability Day in Prague and win a polar bear!

Friday, November 5th, 2010 by

We are proud to announce Polarion as a sponsor of ACM SIGCHI Prague, and we will be presenting at the World Usability Day in Prague. This is a free conference and you can register here. Jan Stawarczyk our user experience designer will be presenting here about Polarion products and design / prototyping tools our development team is using to create Polarion application lifecycle solutions.

Join the event and you will have a chance to win our official mascot – Polly the Polar Bear!

New “Boss Convincer” now online

Friday, October 8th, 2010 by

You’ve been looking at Polarion Requirements. You’re excited about the potential for improving life for your Requirements Management team and your organization. You’re ready to approach your management with a proposal. But you’re dreading it because someone is sure to use the “R” word – “What do you think would be our ROI on that?”

Good news… you don’t need to sweat over spreadsheets and try to figure it out. We’ve done the sweating for you, and the result is our new Polarion Requirements Online ROI Calculator. Just input your current costs for people in different roles, select the improvement level you’d like to achieve, click the button, and put the numbers… and they’re going to be impressive numbers… into your proposal.

The new ROI Calculator is similar to the Polarion ALM ROI Calculator that we’ve had online for some time . (Read more about it…) But this one is streamlined to focus on Requirements Management. We think you’ll find it a handy Boss Convincer. If you’re still hesitant after using the calculator, we’d be happy to help you out. Our team has plenty of experience in this line. (The bosses of over 750,000 Polarion users worldwide have already been convinced!) Just get in touch with us and we’ll work with you to make sure the right people in your company understand why Polarion Requirements is the right solution for you.

Polarion Quality Camp: Managing your Simple QA project

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 by

Let’s face it: In software development, quality gains are among the hardest points to score and testing your product is as critical as developing it. Practice reveals that with the surging demand for continuous ongoing testing the costs of developing modern applications increase exponentially.

A sound approach and an effective framework at hand for managing your test process is all you need to get things right — that is, maximize your testing efficiency, promote reusability of test artifacts, enable collaboration across your testing organization, increase end-to-end visibility of the entire process, and ultimately reduce the application lifecycle costs.  But how can you make that work? This blog series will cover Polarion’s best practices in test and quality management. You will learn about the Polarion QA concept and capabilities, as well as how to better adjust th em to your own needs and goals.

In the first article we demonstrate steps for installing and working with Simple QA, one of numerous Polarion extensions available on the Polarion POP site. We also discuss the concept of comment-based testing introduced by Simple QA, as well as gauge its advantages and potential for improvement. Subsequent articles will take you into more advanced QA topics.

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Agile Requirements with SCRUM – reality or pipe dream?

Friday, September 24th, 2010 by

More and more development teams moving to agile methods like SCRUM to manage their software and product development. The key benefits organizations expect to achieve with SCRUM are:

  • Transparency, including a clear understanding who is doing what when, plus current project status.
  • Better quality, with clear timelines, and all stakeholders committing to them.
  • Self-organization, where the development team works responsibly with accountability.

Agile process for development is now widely accepted and nobody really argues the potential to improve efficiency, productivity, and quality. But what about Requirements Management? How can Requirements Engineers be involved? Can Requirements really be agile? At Polarion, we answer that question with a resounding yes! Why such confidence? Because we do it every day in our own development. (more…)

Requirements Diagramming with Gliffy and Polarion ALM

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 by

What if your project stakeholders could collaborate with each other just by drawing diagrams online with Gliffy and editing traceability between the diagrams and the software requirement specifications in Polarion? This is exactly the thrust of i4ware – Requirements Diagramming, a new commercial plugin for Polarion® ALM 2010™ from i4ware Software. ( It can also be used by Polarion® Requirements™ and Track & Wiki™ users on a Polarion ALM installation.)

Express route:
The plug-in is available for download on Polarion POP and the developers have an online video presentation available.

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