CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 May 2010
Product News
Accept Expands Support for Enterprise Agile Teams; Accept360™ Version 6.0 Enriches Enterprise Collaboration and Agility
News Facts
- Accept’s holistic approach to Product Strategy and Innovation Management aligns customer requirements and suggestions with business strategy, product portfolio planning and support for product development methodologies.
- The Accept360 suite delivers value through intelligent product prioritization and rationalization solving the age-old challenge of what products to build and features to develop that customers actually want to buy.
- SaaS-based Accept360 is specifically designed for enterprises managing complex product families, roadmaps and distributed development teams. Version 6.0 major enhancements include:
- Daily collaboration through a ‘whiteboard and post-it note’-like agile “Task Board” specifically designed for the daily scrum reviews between scrum masters and developers.
- Ability to synchronize sprints across multiple teams and multiple train releases.
- New Team Element functionality to efficiently and effectively manage agile development teams, resources, capacity, backlogs and burn downs.
- Enhanced Accept Ideas, ideation lifecycle management, performance and reporting.
- Accept360 version 6.0 is available to the general public on May 6, 2010.
Supporting Quotes
“PRTM’s recent research found that global corporations view the link between company strategy and product execution as critical,” said Joe Lo, Director with PRTM. “Adopting an integrated end-to-end product management solution that spans the innovation lifecycle, from ideation through agile development, can reduce organizational complexity and cost while increasing the profitability of innovation strategies.”
“Agile reaches well beyond the R&D organization,” said Rich Mironov, author of “The Art of Product Management (http://tinyurl.com/5ce65h). “Product managers are the bridge between development teams and complex markets, keeping product strategies in mind while collaborating with customers and technologists to deliver the right products more quickly. Accept's collaboration and agility improvements are an important step forward for product/portfolio managers.”
“The new capabilities in Accept360 version 6.0 removes the barriers commonly found when adopting agile development methodologies across dispersed teams and complex development organizations,” said John Haniotis, vice president of Product Management at Accept. “Accept360 version 6.0 introduces a number of new features to Accept Requirements and Accept Ideas that improve program and product level collaboration and reduce product planning overhead and engineering efficiencies.”
Supporting Resources
Following resources are available at www.acceptsoftware.com/go/360 :
- Accept Agile datasheet
- Accept Agile whitepaper
- Accept Ideas datasheet
- Accept Requirements datasheet
For more information, visit www.acceptsoftware.com or call 866-423-8376.
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