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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January 15, 2024
Polarion ALM Unleashes the Power of Seamless Collaboration
Polarion ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is a comprehensive software solution designed to manage and streamline the entire application development lifecycle. It encompasses various aspects of the development process, including requirements management, test management, release planning, and collaboration. In an organization, the use of Polarion ALM can address several business problems and enhance the efficiency of software development processes. Here are some common use cases and the associated business problems that Polarion ALM can address.
- Requirements Management:
- Polarion ALM provides a centralized repository for capturing and managing requirements. Teams can define, organize, and link requirements to other artifacts like test cases and development tasks.
- Test Management:
- Polarion ALM facilitates end-to-end test management. Teams can create detailed test cases, manage test execution, and track test results.
- Traceability and Impact Analysis:
- Polarion ALM ensures traceability across all phases of the development lifecycle. Users can establish links between requirements, test cases, development tasks, and other artifacts. This traceability helps in impact analysis, allowing teams to understand how changes in one area may affect other parts of the project.
- Customization and Adaptability:
- Polarion ALM is highly customizable to fit the unique needs of different organizations and industries. Users can create custom workflows, define custom fields, and adapt the tool to their specific development processes.
- User Interface and User Experience
- Mobile Accessibility
- Customization Complexity
- The traceability features in Polarion ALM help identify and address issues early in the development cycle
- Polarion ALM provides real-time dashboards and reporting, offering stakeholders visibility into project status, progress, and quality metrics.
- The initial implementation of Polarion ALM may require time and effort. Some organizations may face challenges in adapting to the tool, and there might be a learning curve for users, especially those new to ALM solutions.
Polarion ALM is designed as a comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management solution, covering requirements management, test management, collaboration, and more in a single integrated platform. If your organization values a unified approach to managing the entire development lifecycle, Polarion may be a preferred choice
April 19, 2023
Polarion ALM - Agile Development with Cyber Security
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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
- Included Variant Management
- Live Docs
- Advanced Reporting
- Lots of Integrations and Add ons on their extensions page
- Very fast ROI
- Easier Validation of the process
- More reliable release cycles and dates
- Much more features
- Easier to implement
- Faster ROI
- Higher acceptance by the users
- Doors is not an ALM Tool
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.
- Ability to see and act upon risk components related to requirements to test tracing that would have been missed or overlooked especially during regulatory submission.
- Always ready reporting for executive management based on trending of product releases before they hit the market.
- One negative is the resources required to maintain the tool which for most non large organizations would be a huge overhead.
- HP Quality Center and Micro Focus ALM
Polarion is a juggernaut of a tool when it comes to traceability and modelling. And it is far better for task management.
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Polarion is used from all levels of business functions from software and hardware engineering, marketing, business analyst and PMO group as well as the executive staff. Each group has their own moderator as workflows and key metrics are a result for each group.
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DEvOps stakeholders are the people that represent Polarion. Each one trained to use Polarion for core activities such as workflows, configuration as well as desktop support. The back end involves another 5 people but they provide a passive level of support such as hardware and the network infrastructure layer.
- Requirements traceability for CAPA
- Defect reporting to standard and non standard releases
- Product workflow risk analysis
- User story for new functionality
- Creation of dashboard to highlight most frequent usages based on defect types
- Requirements flagging for heavy risk areas
- Integration into Supply Chain
- Integration into executive business workflows