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CaliberRM
  • Requirements management is critical to software delivery success
  • Align key stakeholders to improve project success
  • Manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle
  • Reduce risk with predictable project estimation
  • Manage the effectiveness and efficiency of requirements management
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Collaborative Requirements Management System

Borland CaliberRM™ 2005 is a breakthrough solution for managing requirements throughout the software delivery process.

Designed to capture and manage business, technical, functional, and operational requirements, CaliberRM enables stakeholders across the organization to collaborate effectively so that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to specification.

Using CaliberRM to define, prioritize, and track requirements throughout the project lifecycle, software development teams are able to respond rapidly to ever-changing requirements without jeopardizing project success.

Powerful estimation capabilities take project planning and impact analysis to a new level, helping organizations optimize the software delivery process by delivering projects with greater predictability and control.

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CaliberRM Key Components

Borland CaliberRM Datamart

Maximize the value of CaliberRM with Borland CaliberRM Datamart, a powerful business intelligence solution that provides managers with dashboard-style reporting to measure, track, and analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of the requirements management process.

Borland CaliberRM ESTIMATE Professional

CaliberRM ESTIMATE Professional is a powerful, early-stage software project planning and estimation tool that introduces the notion of uncertainty and risk to the product development organization. It makes it easier to integrate business targets with technical estimates in order to come up with a resolution that ensures the highest likelihood of achieving schedule and budget success.

Borland CaliberRM Datamart

CaliberRM Datamart maximizes the value of the Borland CaliberRM requirements management solution by providing essential business intelligence to monitor trends, discover opportunities, and optimize strategies. Sophisticated reporting capabilities based on BusinessObjects® technology make it easier to analyze and compare key metrics across multiple projects - and even across multiple technologies such as Borland CaliberRM, Borland StarTeam,® and Mercury TestDirector® - providing greater visibility across the entire requirements management process.

CaliberRM Datamart includes:

  • Datamart Extractor: pulls selected CaliberRM project data and prepares it for analysis
  • Datamart Synchronizer: opens the Business Objects Universe and refreshes the data to reflect any field changes, thereby ensuring that the most up-to-date information is always used for analysis
  • Datamart Viewer: provides easy access to reports stored in CaliberRM, with the ability launch them in the appropriate reporting tool

Borland CaliberRM ESTIMATE Professional

CaliberRM ESTIMATE Professional includes powerful requirements-based estimation capabilities that help project managers plan project scope, schedule, and resources throughout the software development lifecycle with greater accuracy.

Specific benefits include:

  • Linking project scope, schedule, and cost, resource allocation, and risk management to readily assess the impact on other variables when one variable changes
  • Improving up-front budgeting and planning to determine acceptable degrees of risk, likelihood of meeting deadlines or budget, and the impact on other projects
  • Adjusting project scope on the fly to determine impact on deadlines and resources
  • Ensuring that QA activities are accounted for in development schedules
  • Preparing in advance for project delivery through defect modeling and prediction
  • Reducing workload stress by ensuring that projects are planned according to realistic time schedules

By exposing risk considerations and providing the ability to explore scope vs. resource trade-offs, CaliberRM equips project managers to analyze the impact of change and adjust business expectations accordingly.