SCOPE'S FEATURE |
SCOPE | BENEFITS OF SCOPE |
Interface designed for Windows 7 ® by Microsoft Partner to work like Microsoft Explorer® |
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Modern familiar interface and Windows Icons means minimal training required to learn all SCOPE features. |
| Selectable multilingual interface (includes all screens, messages and reports) | YES |
SCOPE is available in 10 Languages: English - Japanese - German - Chinese - Korean - Portuguese - Dutch - Spanish - Italian - French. |
| ISBSG compliant Metrics Repository allowing user to record all Effort, Defect, Environment Attributes for trends analysis and benchmarking | YES |
SCOPE integrates all Project and Maintenance and support metrics into a central repository for centralised reporting. |
| SCOPE CONNECT™ uses semantic web technology WWW portal for sophisticated management reporting and dynamic ISBSG benchmarking capability. | YES |
SCOPE CONNECT™ allows users to identify, integrate, query and visualise their metrics data with drill down reporting and dynamic filtering of the ISBSG database . Slice and dice’ your own metrics data to benchmark against relevant Industry projects. |
| Provides Automatic Comparison allowing user to quickly compare reports from different databases or different counts to see where changes have been made. | YES |
SCOPE supports your Metrics Manager to verify what has been changed between two different versions of a count. The Compare function highlights which nodes (process, data, notes or attributes) were changed, removed or added new, when and by which User. |
| SCOPE extracts ISBSG compliant Metrics data and email ISBSG with your submitted Project Data or export to Microsoft Excel customisable pivot charts for graphical reporting. | YES |
SCOPE can export an XML file of selected Metrics data and email it to ISBSG as a submision for their ISBSG Development and Enhancement Repository or the ISBSG Maintenance and Support Repository. |
| Customisable 'numeric multipliers' - allows users to use templates or create their own numeric multipliers to report metrics based on size. | YES |
SCOPE provides inbuilt Numerical Categories (NESMA Impact factors, Earned Value Reporting, Project Delivery Rates) or you can create and customise your own for quantitative reporting. |
| Synchronisation capability - allows users to count off-site and later merge the changes they have made into the baseline count without overwriting changes made in the meantime, by other counters. | YES |
SCOPE allows counts to be done remotely without the worry of overwriting changes made by others when the count results are merged back into the same or an updatedbaseline. |
| Single SCOPE database file to simplify data storage and transmission of counts | YES |
Makes transferring data from different storage media simple and easy |
| Enables Project Managers to quantitatively track and interactively display the size of project rework displaying the history of changes online. Tracks when a process or data group is changed multiple times for the same project or removed from the project scope. | YES |
Enables suppliers to easily charge back for project scope-creep and changes to User requirements |
| Imports historical count data from other industry FP counting software e.g. FPW | YES |
Easy to upgrade from other tools without losing historical count data |
| Allows Projects to be mapped to multiple applications so that counts are automatically aggregated at Project level as well as at Application Release level to display online interactively | YES |
Maps the structure of your counts to the real-world structure of your applications development and maintenance environment for easy reporting and communication |
| Allows multiple separate counts to be applied concurrently to the same baseline that can add, change and delete processes and data groups without overwriting other counts changes. | YES |
Allows multiple counts to be done for multiple change requests that impact the same Release of an application – avoids separate counts corrupting the master baseline with counts overwriting each other |
| Inbuilt expert assistance in IFPUG counting rules enhances ability to record and report accurate and detailed count information | YES |
Reduces risk of giving incorrect sizing for decision making by ensuring more accurate and consistent counting |
| All data entry and linking can be done on a single split screen without trekking through layers of stacked windows | YES |
Saves significant time (therefore dollar costs) for a counter to record count results. Also assists in reviewing counts as all information is available on a single split screen and names are fully readable |
| Field lengths are virtually unrestricted to allow actual specification names to be used in documenting the count and display without truncation | YES |
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| Data groups can be hierarchically structured to individually document names of RETs and DETs which can be linked to Elementary Processes | YES |
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| Allows easy hierarchical cataloguing of Notes and Attributes with long field length or no field length restriction for complete count documentation | YES |
Saves significant time (therefore dollar costs) for an auditor to review a count and for another counter to maintain a count since count decisions are easy to record, view and maintain |
| Online expert system to provide expert assistance in IFPUG counting rules | YES |
Saves time and costs of audits and recounts by providing an online mentor on counting queries |
| Full Audit capability of all changes to counts | YES |
Tracks Author and date when all count details were modified including comments. Fully searchable so you know what changed and when and who made the change. |