BigLever Software Introduces Gears 5.2(TM) to Streamline Early Stages of Portfolio Lifecycle Management; Gears 5.2 Enables the Integration of Requirements Management with Software Product Line Development to Reduce Time-to-Market and Production Costs.AUSTIN, Texas -- BigLever Software(TM), a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, today announced the release of Gears 5.2(TM), delivering new capabilities for streamlining key early stages of portfolio lifecycle management. With this new product version organizations can integrate requirements management The administration and control of the information needs of users. In order to achieve business objectives within an organization via information systems, user requirements must be defined in a consistent manner, prioritized and monitored. with the innovative feature modeling and selection capabilities delivered by software product line development approaches. The efficient integration of these technologies simplifies the portfolio development lifecycle and significantly reduces time-to-market and production costs. Managing requirements across the product line becomes increasingly complex and time-consuming as companies introduce diverse capabilities and feature sets into their growing portfolios. Today, Gears 5.2 integrates existing requirements management tools with software product line development capabilities, therefore providing organizations the ability to create and manage requirements across the entire product line portfolio. As a result, improved collaboration and more efficient communication between product management and engineering/development teams are attained. "Complexity is increasing with regards to requirements for product life cycle management, as well as for the software development life cycle," said Melinda Ballou, Program Director for Application Life Cycle Management at IDC. "Foggy fog·gy adj. fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est 1. a. Full of or surrounded by fog. b. Resembling or suggestive of fog. 2. and mismanaged requirements inevitably lead to project irrelevance ir·rel·e·vance n. 1. The quality or state of being unrelated to a matter being considered. 2. Something unrelated to a matter being considered. Noun 1. or failure, at the best of times. Better coordination and collaboration is enabled through access to core business needs to drive increasingly complicated, global product and software development projects." "Gears 5.2 was created in response to increased customer demand for integrating requirements management tools with software product line development approaches," said Charles Krueger, chief executive officer of BigLever Software. "Gears 5.2 reflects the first step in addressing the convergence of software product lines Software Product Lines, or software product line development, refers to engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production. (SPL (1) (Systems Programming Language) The assembly language for the HP 3000 series. See assembly language for an SPL program example. (2) (Structured Programming Language) See structured programming. 1. ) for software portfolio development, application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (ALM) for the development lifecycle of individual software products, and product lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. management (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ) for the development lifecycle of mechanical CAD product portfolios." About Gears 5.2 Gears is a software product line development tool designed to simplify and accelerate the development of software for a portfolio of similar products with variations in features and functions. Software development organizations can augment their existing development tool set with Gears in order to develop their product portfolio as though it were a single system -- rather than a multitude of products. Gears can be used in any or all stages of the portfolio development lifecycle, for more effective requirements management, change and configuration management, source code development, software builds, testing, and document development. Gears 5.2 delivers the following new capabilities and enhancements: Enhanced integration --Enables existing requirements management tools -- such as Telelogic DOORS, UGS TeamCenter This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , and Rational RequisitePro -- to be used in conjunction with Gears in a software product line development setting to create and maintain the requirements for the product line portfolio. --Allows the filtering and viewing capabilities of requirements management tools to integrate with the feature selection capabilities of Gears to automatically select optional requirements based on feature choices for a product within a product line portfolio. --Eliminates the need to create and maintain separate requirements documentation for each product in a product line. Simplified feature modeling --Allows developers to more effectively understand and manage large, complex feature models for their product lines. --Provides a clear view into a hierarchy of features by displaying features in a "nested and indented in·dent 1 v. in·dent·ed, in·dent·ing, in·dents v.tr. 1. To set (the first line of a paragraph, for example) in from the margin. 2. a. layout" which reflects parent/child relationships between features. Improved subsystem viewing and navigation --For software product lines composed of nested subsystems, allows developers to more easily view and comprehend the overall system structure, as well as navigate more readily among the subsystems. About BigLever BigLever Software, a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution and maintenance of embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. or standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. software for a product line portfolio. BigLever's patent-pending solution, Gears, enables software development organizations to reduce development costs and bring new product line features and products to market faster, enabling businesses to more reliably target and hit strategic market windows. BigLever is based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.biglever.com. Copyright (C) 2006 BigLever Software, Inc. All rights reserved. BigLever Software, Gears, and their respective logos are trademarks of BigLever Software, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other jurisdictions. 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