From “project kit” to “Stages” - Method Park Software AG Further Develops Product Family

With project kit, Method Park Software AG has established an integrated management system for processes in software and systems engineering. It ensures that processes are implemented in projects effectively, leading to improved results. project kit enables development processes to be analyzed and modeled, and ensures conformity to standards such as CMMI® or SPICE™.

In its new version, project kit has been further developed to form the product family, “Stages”. Stages will be released for sale at the end of July and supplied in future in role-specific versions.

Stages will be supplied in role-specific versions in order to provide optimum support to quality assurance managers, project managers and other team members in their respective roles. The tool has been extended by a component that allows the analysis of metrics across projects and that makes it easier for the quality manager, for example, to monitor process quality. With the integrated catalog of tried-and-tested performance figures, analysis programs may be started quickly and easily.

Stages also provides an impressive concept for meeting the increasing demands of the market for industry-specific solutions. “With Stages, we will provide suites for the automotive industry, for the area of medical devices and for various application fields such as CMMI,” says Dr. Erich Meier, the board member of Method Park Software AG who is responsible for development.

In contrast to project kit, it will be possible in future to seamlessly integrate Stages into portal systems such as SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft Sharepoint.

About Method Park

Method Park’s engineers and consultants are experts in the field of software development for automotive and medical systems, especially where high demands on quality and safety are made. We are your experienced partner for engineering services, coaching, training and consulting in software development processes and process maturity models.

Our web-based process management portal "Stages" allows you to model your process. It assures the compliance of processes to standards and communicates process descriptions to teams. “Stages” can be integrated with your configuration management system to manage project documents in accordance with the defined process.

Method Park was founded in 2001 in Erlangen, Germany, currently has more then 100 employees. Method Park has subsidiaries in Erlangen, Freiburg, Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, as well as Detroit and San José/USA.

For further information please contact

Margit Brendl, Public Relations
Method Park Software AG, Wetterkreuz 19a, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-281, Fax +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-280
E-Mail:Margit.Brendl@methodpark.com
http://www.methodpark.com

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