• Next meeting 5/13/2008
• Approximately 25 to 30 attendees
• Introductions
• NDIA Speaks Out mentioned
• MKS Presentation and Demo
  • Courtesy of Cary Bryzeck and Kim Wagner
  • Jeff will get copies of slides from presentation and demo
  • MKS has one repository for Requirements, Change vehicles, Code, Documentation, Test Cases which means real time updates
  • 100% of MKS functionality is built from ground up
  • Thick Client Demo, 1st went over queries
    • Complete Traceability to code level includes Requirements and Schedule
    • Administration from Thick Client (not from Web Client)
    • Branching, other specialized development from Thick Client (not web Client)
  • MKS Web Client Demo
    • They have scripts for automatic license timeout when someone shutdown browser without exiting
    • Reporting very flexible
    • Requirements Traceability, triggers sent to dependencies when Requirements change
    • Template of Workflows out of box
    • Testing Repository, Integrations with test tools, Test Sessions, Test Cases
    • Can open Defect from Testing Session and add attachments and screen Shots
    • Version Control, each developer has own sandbox for Unit Testing, Robust Version Management, includes Revision Graph
    • IDE include, Visual Studio TeamBuilder, Eclipse,
    • You can lock down Development Environment such as require Change Request association to check out code, add new files
    • Builds, integration with OpenMake
    • Workflows, automated workflows will find dependencies, workflow templates included
    • Deployment Tool, Change, Build, Deploy, Deploy Patches to databases
    • MKS has rollback capability
    • Microsoft Project/Project Server synchronization in both directions
    • Microsoft Word integration, where will parse Word documents for Requirements
    • 508 Compliant
    • Can be tuned to meet needs of organization where Change Vehicles have different names, i.e. CRs, ARs, ECPs, SPRs, PTRs, DRs, etc
    • Calendar feature to see schedule of events/dependencies
    • Gant Charts for management, can filter so they don't have to see all Details
    • Setup for Triggers, emails, rules set by CM Administrators
    • Active Directory Integration

CM Working Group Yahoo Group Owner
Joe Bodin
301-580-1699