MKS Integrity provides complete application lifecycle coverage from requirements management to deployment of change to production via a single solution and architecture.

Government IT leaders are seeking greater levels of agility and collaboration in their software development efforts, to facilitate large transformations within application development such as the move to SOA, adoption of agile methodologies, or the implementation of standardized processes.

At the same time, government is seeking to reduce IT complexity, protect critical software assets, and control costs.

MKS provides a range of capabilities for US Government agencies and contractors. Their application lifecycle management platform provides a secure and scalable management platform to manage change across every size and shape of Government organization.

MKS Integrity

MKS Integrity is MKS’s flagship platform for application lifecycle management. MKS Integrity is the only solution on the market today to provide complete application lifecycle coverage from requirements management to deployment of change to production via a single solution and architecture.

With MKS Integrity for application lifecycle management, Government IT leaders and contractors gain real time information on the status of change across their entire application portfolio; streamlined collaboration across geographic and team boundaries and a platform that enhances efficiency, speeds innovation and meets today’s agile development and compliance demands.

Features and Benefits

• Single solution and platform supporting every phase of the application development lifecycle
• Highly flexible process capabilities enabling support for agile and other development methodologies and maturity models
• Support for application portfolio management, including real time metrics and trend for application development performance monitoring and project execution
• Deep audit trails for compliance

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White Papers

Automating Compliance for Software Certification - Leveraging Change and Configuration Management to Automate Compliance with FAA DO-178B and Other Federal Compliance Standards

Many IT professionals who rely on manual methods for software configuration and change management are faced with great difficulty when creating and maintaining comprehensive records and detailed documentation trees with complex relationships. These manual processes can be very time-consuming, error-prone, costly and frustrating for all involved. Commercial and military aerospace manufacturers and their suppliers who are subject to stringent FAA regulations and intricate software certification processes have an especially strong need to leverage powerful software configuration management tools and technologies.

This white paper demonstrates how MKS Integrity can be used to streamline these processes with automated workflow, making the change process enforceable and repeatable across the entire application lifecycle.

Leveraging Application Lifecycle Management to Achieve CMMI Maturity Level 3 and Higher on Government Programs

As government organizations strive for more controlled and consistent software development processes, the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMISM) continues to be a leading methodology for measuring and improving software development processes. It is not a process description, but is meant to provide guidance to use when developing processes. Central to any software process improvement effort should be a process-centric application lifecycle management solution, such as MKS Integrity, which provides the control necessary for implementing CMMI.

This white paper will help government organizations and supporting contractors that are trying to implement disciplinary CMMs or the CMMI. The paper focuses on providing an understanding of the requirements and tools that are necessary for an organization to reach CMMI Level Three. It also features a short case study on Lockheed Martin’s successful attainment of CMMI-SE/SW Level Five certification with the help of MKS.

An Innovative Approach to Managing Software Requirements

Requirements may be the most critical aspect of the software development cycle. Studies point to a more than 60% failure rate for software projects in the U.S., with poor requirements as one of the top five reasons. Managing requirements must be an integral part of an organization’s overall development process, and is vital to mitigating risk on large development projects.

This paper introduces you to MKS Integrity for requirements management, the only solution available today built as an extension of an application lifecycle management platform. Further, this paper reviews the current state of the requirements management tools landscape and details how requirements are authored, captured and traced through the downstream lifecycle, how companies can utilize best practices such as parallel development and reuse in relation to requirements and how configuration management concepts such as versioning and base lining can be leveraged for advanced requirements management practice.

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