Polarion ALM for Requirements Management and traceability
We use Polarion ALM to manage product requirements. Thanks to the flexibility of the tool, we could define different types of project …
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What is Polarion ALM?
Polarion ALM is an application requirement management software platform now owned and supported by Siemens since the 2015 acquisition. It is available on the cloud (Polarion X) and on-premise. Polarion connect teams and projects to improve application development processes with a…
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What is Polarion ALM?
In legacy software development environments, many different point solutions are used to manage the application lifecycle. As a result, development artifacts are scattered, slowing down collaboration, hindering transparency, undermining integrity and making it difficult to drive innovation.
Polarion ALM gives organizations one unified solution that delivers project transparency through real-time aggregated management information. It is designed so that everyone is aligned around what is being built and why to drive advancement while protecting integrity and compliance. The vendor states this helps teams respond faster and with better quality to new business opportunities and customer demands.
Polarion ALM Features
- Supported: Collaboration, Traceability and Workflow
- Supported: Change & Configuration Management
- Supported: Test & Quality Management
- Supported: Requirements Management
- Supported: Issue & Risk Management
- Supported: Reuse & Branch Management
- Supported: Planning & Resource Management
- Supported: Agile / Hybrid Project Management
- Supported: Build & Release Management
- Supported: Connectors & Extensibility
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Resource Traceability gives Polarion users the power to link source code assets semantically. (Link Work Items directly to the source code function, method or variable that implements them.) This gives managers and auditors a traceable record of all implemented changes and de...
Show More Many companies must have documentation meet certain internal Style Guides, or to match a document style provided by a stakeholder or customer. Watermarks are important for clearly establishing a status for released documents. We’ll talk in depth about these two important top...
Show More Effective use of Polarion’s ability to easily connect and collaborate with stakeholders ensures that requirements are complete and shortens the time to market. In this session, we’ll show how to maximize this functionality, bringing speed and accuracy to the development proce...
Show More Reuse is an important component in the ability to maintain governance and consistency throughout the software development process. Along with collaboration and traceability, reuse completes the triad of fundamental pillars that support, enable, and energize efficiency in the ...
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Polarion ALM Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Polarion ALM is an application requirement management software platform now owned and supported by Siemens since the 2015 acquisition. It is available on the cloud (Polarion X) and on-premise. Polarion connect teams and projects to improve application development processes with
a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing and release.
Reviewers rate Polarion Requirements Management highest, with a score of 8.4.
The most common users of Polarion ALM are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Full ALM process coverage with Polarion ALM
Score 10 out of 10
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We use Polarion to manage the whole software development lifecycle, from requirements to development to testing and release, in a collaborative environement that ensure full traceability across the overall workflow. Thank to Polarion we can link together all the activitites in a meaningful way, making easier to retrieve information when needed and to ensure that all the actors involved are working following the right workflows, reducing risks, errors and being able to anticipate any issue and resolve them earlier in the process.
It also makes easier to demonstrate the compliance to the needed regulations.
- Requirement management in Polarion is extremely effective, with a simple but powerful authoring environment, simple approval process management, seamless traceability and advanced reuse capabilities
- Test management capabilities allow to link together the requirements with the validation process, and let the user define, plan, execute and record tests across the whole development process
- Day bay day management of development is easy to track, with out of the box support for agile methodologies, live planning reports and integration with Git, SVN and CI/CD tools.
- Test management could have more ways to organize test sessions
February 28, 2024
Polarion ALM as a systems engineering tool for managing a company
We are using Polarion ALM as a management system for all the policies, procedures and guidelines, for training management, for the asset and risk management part of our operation. Using Polarion ALM we could implement a digitized management system and get a certification for ISO27001:2023 in very short time. The change control and traceability enabled by Polarion ALM is very useful if you need to have a structured approach in your operation. We also implemented the controls of ISO27002:2023 and with the reporting capabilities together with the traceability capabilities we could easly create coverage reports on how much of the requirements and controls that has been implemented and having links to the actual implementation.
- Traceability
- Reviews and approvals
- Change management
- requirement management
- test management
- Risk management
- Workflow scripting from the admin panel
- Configuration management capability on the oslc side
April 19, 2023
Polarion ALM - Agile Development with Cyber Security
Score 10 out of 10
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One of the key business problems that Polarion ALM addresses in our company is the lack of visibility and collaboration in software development projects. With its centralized platform, Polarion ALM enables our teams to collaborate and communicate effectively, which lead to improved productivity and faster time-to-market. Additionally, Polarion ALM provides end-to-end traceability, which can help us to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and reduce the risk of errors.
- Enter requirements via livedocs
- Traceability between all used artifacts like workitems
- Included easy to configure reporting
- Inbtegration to MATLAB Simulink
- Support for System of Systems
- Product Portfolio Planning
July 29, 2022
Multiple Papers may be Handled Easily and Quickly
When we worked on a locomotive project, we were responsible for managing the requirements, reviews, and test cases. In order to handle several projects and various documentation levels, Polarion ALM is utilized to link them and trace them back to each other. Management systems and software requirements may be managed with this tool, Additionally, it helps link and track the two entities. Since it is web-based, it also allows for user-to-user cooperation.
- System and software needs may be managed in a systematic manner.
- Because it is web-based, it makes it possible for users to work together.
- It is possible to upload the papers and files.
- Text editing in that program may be more sophisticated, similar to what you'd find in Word.
- Views, like Table, Tree, and Matrix, aren't all that easy to figure out.
- Finding items that fit specific criteria using filters is cumbersome and should be made simpler. This is particularly true when filtering numerous documents at once.
June 23, 2022
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We used to manage requirements, reviews, and test cases for a locomotive project. There are many line replaceable units in the system so Polarion ALM is used to manage several projects and different levels of documentation and the linking and tracing between the two.
Scope:- It provide a means to management system and software requirement
It also provide linking and traceability between the two
It also allow for collaboration between users since it is web based
Scope:- It provide a means to management system and software requirement
It also provide linking and traceability between the two
It also allow for collaboration between users since it is web based
- manages multiple documents well and saves time in navigation
- allows multiple uses to view the same document and provide comments and feedback
- provide a means to management system and software requirements
- The text editing could be more advanced like Word
- The different views like Table, Tree and Matrix and not very intuitive
- The ability to use filters to search for items that meet certain criteria is a little clumsy and could be easier, especially if you want to run a filter against multiple documents
Polarion ALM is used to manage requirements, reviews, and test cases for an aerospace project. There are many line replaceable units in the system so Polarion ALM is used to manage several projects and different levels of documentation and the linking and tracing between the two.
- provide a means to management system and software requirements
- provide linking and traceability between the two
- allow for collaboration between users since it is web based
- Thet text editing could be more advanced like Word
- The different views like Table, Tree and Matrix and not very intuitive
- The ability to use filters to search for items that meet certain criteria is a little clumsy and could be easier, especially if you want to run a filter against multiple documents
May 09, 2017
Polarion Pluses and Minuses
Polarion is used across the entire line of businesses in our entire corporation. Each business is its "own" entity but has crossover products and processes from division to division. As such, many products might share common components and imbedded technologies while each SKU is its own item and has its own "life span." Each division has its own sandbox but many higher level components within each sandbox span across multiple units. The business problem that it addresses is the disparity that would happen by either design or circumstance and it ties in through "traceability" all the aspects of requirements in the lifecycle that would otherwise fall through the cracks.
- The workflows that are customizable in Polarion are amazing. They have specified workflows for companies that deal with different product lines related to regulatory requirements like medical devices. The ability to enhance "out of the box" workflows helps with risk mitigation immensely without having to allocate so many resources to get it going from ground up.
- Reporting - bringing together dashboards with key metrics is an absolute must and leveraging output based on needs from executive level presentations to development metrics is a winner for us. And the drill downs are immensely useful for anyone who wants to get the microscopic view of what drives our success on that nth degree.
- Over all Risk Mitigation: Risk based ALM is very important to us. The ability to integrate our regulatory SOPs into our own client defined formats and procedures gives us the leverage to tie in all that traceability I discussed earlier into palpable digests of risk which our company leaders use to drive vision.
- Requirements management is an absolute nightmare for most people. Polarion helps us drive requirements on different levels like regualtory, business, user interface, etc. This ties in to all the risk mitigation criteria we so much rely on to make us succeed.
- More robust engine as far as the actual took is concerned. There are navigation components in trace to reporting which we feel can be improved especially when dealing with cross global accessing of the tool. It slows us down a bit so it's backend driven optimization as well as some front end "clunkiness" that can be improved.
- Improve some filtering capabilities especially in creating custom reports and generally all around the ALM components of the tool.
- As of the version we have, the ability to enhance replationship types in traceability is limited.