VersionOne Integration Adapter

VersionOne is a one-stop-solution for performing agile and lean software development practices. It supports planning and tracking of epics, stories, themes, tasks, tests and issues distributed among different stakeholders in a single system. The tool also guides team members through each of the agile development steps from product and release planning to sprint planning, tracking, and review.

However, senior executives, managers, product owners, developers, and testers using an Agile PPM tool like VersionOne also need to access and share information with other stakeholders of the project using different third-party tools for different ALM functions. This is needed for better cross-functional team collaboration that ensures higher visibility across teams, projects, and agile portfolios.

Today large part of a successful project management depends on the integration of different tools used by different teams for their own purposes. Without integration in place, the job of the team members becomes extremely difficult as they need to hop around multiple tools to collect relevant information. This leads to the reduction of quality as well as productivity of the team members. The manual process of collecting and sharing cross-tool data to-and-fro with VersionOne and then aligning the data and processes with the project goals becomes burdensome and error-prone.

Features & Benefits

  • Allows synchronization of data between Agile planning tool and Requirements Management, Test Management, Project Portfolio Management, Issues Management and Help Desk Management tool
  • Enable direct viewing of Scopes/ Projects, their hierarchical relationships and individual project records in VersionOne from third party tools connected through Omnibus
  • Establish traceability relationships among artifact records residing in VersionOne agile platform and other application lifecycle tools
  • Get direct access to VersionOne Score Card reports from other tools integrated with Kovair Omnibus
  • Allows determining roll-up view of User Stories
  • Manage artifact flows between VersionOne and other tools through visual configuration. No custom coding is required
  • Exposed almost all artifacts of VersionOne, for example, Story, Epic, Request, Issue, Defect, Goal, Test, Task, Timebox, and Theme to other third party tools
  • Provides Entity Add/ Modify/ Delete options for Events and Actions exposed by Kovair
  • Support for cross-entity relationships as well as parent-child relationships during Event-Action service flow
  • Support for data syncing as well as linking of records between VersionOne and Omnibus connected tools
  • Support for cross-tool traceability across different project hierarchies and individual artifacts
  • Support for bidirectional transfer of Attachments, Comments and Relationships between VersionOne and other integrated tools in the ecosystem

Kovair Integration Support for VersionOne

Kovair addresses these pain points of Agile PPM teams by integrating VersionOne with its integration hub – Omnibus Integration Platform. The integration platform connects VersionOne users with the users of 90+ other COTS tools that are already integrated with Omnibus and used in different phases of an application lifecycle.

Kovair Omnibus, with the help of its integration adapter/connector for VersionOne, exposes VersionOne system assets or entity objects such as Story, Scope, Epic, Request, Issue, Defect, Task to Kovair, and thereby other Omnibus connected tools in an ALM ecosystem. It enables agile teams at all level – Enterprise, Portfolio, Program and Team remain synced to a single page of information and work together in harmony across integrated toolsets.

Kovair currently supports integration with VersionOne version 15.2.1.9292.

VersionOne integration with Kovair
Fig: Integrating VersionOne with multi-vendor tools through Kovair Omnibus

Kovair’s Value propositions for Agile team members

For Project Managers:

  • Plan, prioritize and execute releases and sprints with much needed information across tools and monitor for continuous improvement.
  • Track scrum progress across toolsets, Add/Modify/Delete Sprints, and generate customized and intelligent cross-tool reports for better management visibility.
  • View VersionOne Score Card directly from other project management tools like MS Project through scorecard URL linking and monitor the rate of project completion, % of defect raised and Backlog items without entering into the VersionOne tool.
  • Add User Stories or Backlog items to VersionOne from any other Requirements management tools like Jama, DOORS, and vice versa.

For Portfolio Managers:

  • Get a bigger picture of the agile portfolio development progress in VersionOne by aligning strategic and cross-project initiatives to the other tools involved in the entire lifecycle.
  • Achieve a seamless integration of VersionOne project portfolios with other popular PPM and ALM tools like CA Clarity, Rally Agile and thus create a larger, but synchronized portfolio, project, and application development environment for global teams.

For Developers:

  • Gain direct access to defects in VersionOne from any defect tracking tools like JIRA, Bugzilla and then upon defect resolution, update status in VersionOne without entering into the other tool.
  • Send defect status reports to Help Desk team from VersionOne to Help Desk or Service Desk management tool automatically. No manual intervention is required.

For Testers:

  • Access User Stories or Backlog items in VersionOne from any third party test management tools like HP QC, RQM and Test Link, execute test cases there, and update test results in VersionOne without leaving the preferred testing environment.
  • View/add/edit/delete test artifacts in VersionOne from any other test management tools
  • Get an integrated view of test elements across test, defect, requirements management and agile project management tools.

For Help Desk teams:

  • Add customer support tickets directly to VersionOne tool as a User Story right from a Help Desk management tool like Remedy and ServiceNow.
  • Get Ticket resolution status upon Issues/Change Requests fixed by developers and then notify customers automatically from within the Help Desk tool. No need to access agile development tools for the real-time updates.
  • Establish real-time collaboration between Agile Development and Operations teams and improve customer relationships.