| Release Planning - Execute your product roadmaps using ReleasePlan. Capture and implement all types of development -- platforms, products, enhancements, and patches. Ensure that everyone understands the company?s goals and priorities. |
| Idea Management - With increased competitive pressures demanding faster time-to-market, it is critical to act quickly on good ideas. Capture, refine, and analyze a complete innovation pipeline. ReleasePlan helps you to turn ideas into actions. |
| Features Management - Marketing and Development must work together to achieve real reductions in Time-to-Market. ReleasePlan provides product and development managers with the ability to clearly and concisely capture customer needs for each of your proposed releases. |
| Use Case Management - Translate customer needs into product requirements using Use Cases. ReleasePlan provides the first fully integrated Use Case Management capability. |
| Requirements Management - ReleasePlan lets you do away with expensive, desktop requirements management applications. Capture and share product requirements with everyone involved in developing the release. ReleasePlan gives you a complete collaborative requirements management capability. |
| Change Request Management - Change is constant in product development, in fact it is expected. Manage priorities, scope, cost, and customer expectations using an integrated change request management framework. Follow changes from idea through release with full tracability. |
| Defect Management - ReleasePlan provides a complete bug tracking and management capability to address software quality issues. |
| Test Management - ReleasePlan provides you with central control for test activity planning, management, and reporting. With ReleasePlan everyone can understand the scope and progress of release testing. |
| Incident Management - ReleasePlan provides the ability to integrate customer feedback directly into the release management process. With ReleasePlan resources are focused on the issues that have the greatest urgency and impact for your customers. |
| Document Management - Timely access to product and project information is critical to your success. With ReleasePlan all of the information is available when you need it. Full Edition and security controls give you the ability to manage access. |
| Project Scheduling - ReleasePlan provides your team with sophisticated project management capabilities. With ReleasePlan all of your team members, regardless of location, can have full visibility of project schedules and critical milestones |
| Action Items - Create, assign, and track action items. Action item logs allow project managers to keep track of important project meetings and activities. Each user can track and status their own actions. |
| Iteration Management - Leading development organizations use iterative development methodologies for breakthrough results. ReleasePlan provides a complete Iteration Planning and Management capability. XP, Agile, Custom Methodologies are easily executed using ReleasePlan. |
| Process-Based Development - ReleasePlan supports both project- and process- based development. As companies strive for higher levels of performance, ReleasePlan is there to standardize and optimize execution. With ReleasePlan a company can realize a continuous improvement process. |
| Open Process Framework - ReleasePlan provides the Governance Teams with the tools needed to guide project teams through the phases of a development pipeline. In addition, Business Decision Points can be defined for critical Milestones. |
| Development Methodologies - ReleasePlan is designed to enable most development methodologies. Use ReleasePlan to manage methodologies such as, Agile, XP, RUPtm, and more. |
| Six Sigma / CMM Level 2- 5 - ReleasePlan has been built to support best-in-class product development practices. Start at CMM Level 2 and quickly advance to Level 5. ReleasePlan was architected to provide continuous process improvement initiatives. |
| Resource Pools - In today?s distributed development environment, resources can come from anywhere. Resource Pools provide capacity to development pipelines. ReleasePlan provides the flexibility to define resource pools they way you work ? by geography, by skills, by company, by group, or any other combination. |
| Policy Management - Sophisticated controls can be used to govern policy management. Policy controls act to enforce product development pipeline standards. |