New App Supports Agility, Governance

  Governance   ProjectsAtWork  

The Alpha State Explorer app helps software teams focus on essentials, and keep projects on track, using simple check-lists based on emerging industry standard.

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) has launched the Alpha State Explorer App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The app, which is freely available on the App Store, enables software development teams to easily track their project status, set clear objectives and avoid failures by ensuring essential aspects of good software development practice are addressed.

The app is entirely method, process and practice agnostic, and supports any type of software development, whether teams are using traditional methods or more modern lean and agile techniques.

“The Alpha State Explorer app is a new offering, but the concepts it embodies have been proven over many years within our customer engagements, across many different types of project, and within a variety of industries,” said Sion Roberts, IJI CEO. “The concept is simple: if check-lists can keep aircraft in the sky, and save patient’s lives in the operating theatre, then why not do the same for software projects? The check-lists built in to the Alpha State Explorer app are the result of decades of collective experience, from a multitude of software professionals around the world.”

The app supports the lightweight process framework …

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