SLPSoft Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio

The SLPSoft Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables projects created inside Visual Studio to be managed inside Visual Studio.  The Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables software projects to deliver on time, reduce cost of software project, enables developer’s collaboration and feedback, makes Visual Studio more productive; natural object oriented support, agile methodology support, multiuser environment support, and much more.

The Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables each project created in Visual Studio to have a lifetime and each developer working in a project must have a function.  The Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables a project created in Visual Studio to be viewed as a function and when that function is executed a problem is solved.  To get started, the Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio can be viewed as follow

A project is started in Visual Studio to solve an identified problem.  The Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables the developers to clearly identify that problem by having a problem statement.  That problem statement is being viewed as the problem statement of the overall project related to the project requirement.  Given that multiple developers are working in the project, the Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables each developer to have his/her own problem statement which is related to the function of each developer.

To better understand how the Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio Works, let’s assume that we start a project in Visual Studio to Read Data from an instrument; so we can call that project WindowsProgramDataReader or WindowsApplicationDataReader.  The overall function of the project is to read data to an external instrument attached to a computer.  Using the Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables the manager or the team to start the project by having a description for the project, then identify the problem the project needs to solve.  For instance for our WindowsProgramDataReader we have the main problem like

The problem statement of the project is related to the project requirement.  In this case we can say that, from the project requirement, we define the main problem statement of the project.  This relationship is viewed by this model

In this project we have 3 developers working in the project and each of them has the following function.

Given that each developer in the project has a function, each developer in the project has a problem to solve and when each developer in the project executes his/her function, and underlined problem is solved which is a part of the main problem.  In this case, let’s partition the main problem to show problems that are needed to be solved by the developers in the project.

The Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio enables the overall problem the project needs to solve to be divided into sub problems, where the overall function of the project to be divided into sub functions for developers.   Here are some key features of the Functional Project Manager for Visual Studio

• Developer collaboration
• Model driven software development
• Project separation from model
• Project organization
• Full life cycle development
• Team management
• Reduce project complexity
• Developer management
• Developer time management
• Project reports
• Project requirement implementation
• Project requirement tracking
• Project time management
• Project problem identification
• Opening and closing project
• Permission and security management
• Test result capability
• Requirement Mapping
• Requirement Analysis
• Code review included
• And much more

Here are some screenshots 

Project Manager Menu in Tools Menu and After Tools Menu

When Installed Project Manager Appears in Context Menu of Code Editor

Project Management Property Panel for Teamlead or Manager

Developer Property Panel Includes Commands for Developers

List of Developer in Project Shows all Developers and Their Functions

Test Result Report Shows Pass and Fail Test

Work With SLPSoft Project Modeling, Project Manager, and Application Modeling

Program Shows with Model and Method Executed

Project Requirement Tracking Shown

Project Requirements Shown with Functions and Problems

Requirement to Problem Mapping

Requirement to Function Mapping

Requirement to Feature Mapping

Features Mapped to Developer Function

Project Requirement Definition

While some of the features are listed here, but the Functional Project Manager has so many features and all cannot be listed here.

Comprehensive user manual with step by step tutorial can be downloaded here

Download User Manual and Tutorial

After installing the software, run the project machine identification utility to view project as any developer any of the developer below.  The sample project was completed by three developers working in three separate computers.  The sample is a complete project, it will let you explore many functionalities of the software; so click on many commands to explore the software functionality.

Also may also download either

• Interactive Application Modeling
• Interactive Project Modeling
• Interactive Project Manager

To view the overall model of the WindowsProgramDataReader

When installed the WindowsProgramDataReader example will be under

C:\Users\UserName\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects

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