12C - ALM for Plex a.. - CA 2E/Plex Conference

29 Pages·2009·0.8 MB·English

Application Lifecycle
Management for CA
2E and CA Plex:
MKS-CM Connector
with Model
Management
12C
Christoph Heinrich
CM First AG
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Speaker Bio
> Christoph Heinrich,
CEO, CM First AG, Switzerland
> Software Development with CA 2E since 1991
> Software Development with CA Plex since 1995
> Software Projects in the US and Switzerland
> Implemented SCM Solutions and Concepts in numerous
Companies
> Speaker at Conferences (CA Plex Events in Austin and
Cincinnati, CA World, CA User Group Meetings)
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Agenda
 ALM/SCM Overview
 CA Plex ALM Challenges
 ALM with CA Plex using MKS CM-Connector and MKS
Integrity for IBM i
 Managing CA Plex objects
 Managing CA Plex models
 Demonstration
 New Feature Preview
 Session summary
 Q&A
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ALM/SCM Overview
Justfication and
Challenges
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Barriers to IT Productivity
29%
One third of IT organizations are affected by
software that spans multiple geographical,
organizational, functional and technology silos
Less than one fifth of companies find it easy to
coordinate change across silos >20%
68 percent of enterprises have software built
with components developed by different teams
68%
– both internal and external
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Why do you need ALM tooling?
> Our development teams aren’t working together well
> My developers are spending to much time on
administrative tasks around moving objects
> We failed our IT audit, or (worse) a problem occurred
> There was a problem with a promotion, and it took all
Wasted Time
day (or night) to back it out
Lost Productivity
Lost Business
> We forgot to move a required object
> I want to see metrics and improve software
development cycle times
> Our web application involves so many different
platforms
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Specific challenges with CA Plex
 Our existing ALM tooling doesn’t manage or track CA Plex
model changes
We can’t tell who, what, or when easily
 Our 2E developers, Plex developers, and (any other)
developers are having trouble coordinating changes
No common project focus
 There are so many different objects involved on different
platforms
HTML, Java, RPG, LF, PF, C++, PNL, Resources, …
 Reality – many shops do not have a good ALM
solution for CA Plex
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Managing Multiple Platforms and Dimensions
Object
Pl
ex
2E
Oth
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Recap: automated tooling needed
 With multiplatform, web applications complexity is
high
 Many objects to move
 Multiple machines / directories / libraries
 Single ALM platform reduces silos of development
 3 teams may be involved on a single project
 Tracking of change, metrics, audit virtually impossible to
do manually
 Lets look at potential solutions…
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MKS CM-Connector
with Plex Model
Manager
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