Serena Development Manager enables you to orchestrate and monitor your key software development efforts, tracking source code changes and approvals through a central workflow engine. Development Manager uses Serena Business Manager (SBM) to coordinate events across your systems using Web services, integrating application project definition, source code management, test management, and release approvals. Track and report on development progress using the included dashboard solution, providing comprehensive decision-making support to managers and directors who need the latest information at all times on key performance indicators (KPIs).
Serena Development Manager helps you to conform with CMMI standards by enabling you to establish and maintain an organizational policy for planning and performing your processes and make them visible to relevant members of the organization. It helps you to create organizational expectations for establishing and maintaining baselines, tracking and controlling changes to work products under configuration management, and establishing and maintaining integrity of those baselines.
Serena Development Manager provides the following benefits. You can choose which of these options would be helpful for your organization, and configure and customize the workflow as needed based on your work practices.
Development project lifecycle management. Promote development activities through lifecycles stages such as planning, code, test, and release. You can customize the development stages according to your organizational practices, define user roles and owners for each stage, and set up notifications.
Source code management. Development Manager includes Serena Dimensions CM, the powerful, enterprise-scale source code configuration management application.
Test management system integration. Monitor your QA team’s progress on defects and requirements by integrating Development Manager with HP Quality Center / ALM.
Graphical business intelligence dashboard. As an option, Serena provides a rich, graphical reporting tool, Serena® Dashboard that allows you to carefully monitor key performance indicators (KPIs). The reports are fully configurable, and can provide graphical information on any aspects of your projects that managers or executives need to track.