Calibo Accelerate Use Cases

Calibo Accelerate is a self-service product development platform with multiple capabilities that help you achieve several business use cases. This sections lists down a few important use cases like Portfolio and Product Management, Release Orchestration, Product Development with DevSecOps that you can achieve using the Calibo Accelerate platform

Portfolio and Product Management

In today’s data-driven world, the more data and visibility you have, the better the decision making. The success of your business is defined by the choice of products you make, type of customer segments you cater to, and markets by geography that you target. Aligning requirements to business goals and prioritizing budgets and resources to value-driven products is instrumental in achieving the desired business outcome for your organization. For this you require portfolio management with a comprehensive view of all the products your company produces and portfolios with which the products are aligned. Portfolio management brings agility to manage market changes, competition, or even regulatory requirements.

What you want to achieve Description How can you achieve this using Calibo Accelerate
Strategic alignment

Align your products with business goals and assess the alignment to reduce risk and make decisions for ultimate ROI. Create a product portfolio that includes:

  • Business Outcome

  • Priority

  • Stakeholders

  • Portfolio value

  • Strategy

 

Create Product Portfolio

Resource Planning and Management

Provide visibility of resource requirement, availability, allocation, and skillsets across products and portfolios to manage resources optimally.

  • Adding resource requirements

  • Allocating resources

  • Quarterly resource summary of requirements and allocation

Resource Planning

Planning and Reporting

Reports to assess execution of plans and adjust the plans based on changing customer and market requirements.

  • Dashboards for portfolio and products with top performing portfolios, drill-down views into portfolio by value, top products within a portfolio.

  • Gantt chart for complete visibility into requirement and availability of resources, based on portfolio or product.

 

Release Orchestration

With cloud computing, release cadence for products has moved from years and months to weeks. Fast- paced releases need a well-oiled engine to manage multiple products, releases and their inter-dependencies. A release train is a release calendar which is planned in advance and helps manage releases efficiently. Products and features align with the release train for better planning and execution.

Why should you use the Release Train concept?

  • It provides release schedule to all teams, stakeholders, and customers ahead of time.

  • It provides a framework for different product teams to coordinate and align their work.

  • It provides a framework to identify cross-product dependencies and resolve them systematically.

How does Calibo Accelerate help you manage Release Trains?

Calibo Accelerate– the self-service development platform helps you manage your releases efficiently during your product development journey by using the release train concept in the following ways:

What you want to achieve Description How can you achieve this using Calibo Accelerate
Manage Release Trains

Create an overall release calendar. Create a release train that includes:

  • Release details

  • Release Train Manager who owns and drives the release train

Create Release Train

Add Releases to Release Trains

Create releases that include:

  • Objective, timeline and release date

  • Risk, Impact, and Status

  • Exit criteria to ensure desired outcome from each release.

Create Releases

Associate products with a release and track progress

Facilitate products to be part of existing releases:

  • Associate products with release.

  • Integrate products with agile tools to monitor progress.

  • Provide visibility into release trains and visibility.

Associate a product with a release

 

Integrate with agile tool

Product Development with DevSecOps

Calibo Accelerate: the self-service product development platform helps various stakeholders within your organization through the idea-market journey of creating digital products, by enhancing productivity and quality, while ensuring security of the digital products that you create.

The productization journey goes through several stages and the Calibo Accelerate platform infuses governance and security at every stage by providing automation, templates, approval workflows, and industry-best practices, removing bottlenecks and accelerating the time to market of your products.

What you want to acheive Description How can you achieve this using Calibo Accelerate
Configure the platform

Configure various settings to start using the platform

for product development

Configure the various areas of platform setup that include:

 
Create Teams, Add Users, and Assign Roles to users Create teams to work on products, add users to teams and assign appropriate roles to users. Create custom roles if you need roles with specific permissions.
Create Product Portfolio

Create portfolios to group and manage products catering to various customer segments, or domains appropriately. Portfolios include:

  • Business Outcome

  • Priority

  • Stakeholders

  • Strategy

 
Create Products

Create products, add them to appropriate portfolios to align them with business goals. Products include:

  • Business Group

  • Phases - Define, Design, Develop, Deploy

  • Milestones that the product is divided into

  • Policy Templates
Create Release Trains

Create Release Trains to manage multiple releases and dependencies:

  • Create release trains

    Associate products with release.

  • Integrate products with agile tools to monitor progress.

  • Provide visibility into release trains and visibility.
Define Requirements

Business Executives define the business requirements and get them approved through an approval workflow, and link them to stories in Agile tool. Business requirements include:

  • Priority

  • Impact

  • Value

 

 Define Business Requirements
Design Artifacts

Based on business requirements, create artifacts like approach documents, UI mockup designs:

  • Architectural diagrams

  • Functional approach diagrams

  • Space in a collaborative space

  • User research documents

 Create Designs
Develop the product

Add tools and tech stack required to develop the product and start coding, developer activities include:

  • Add required tech stacks

  • Create branch templates

  • Do the actual coding

     

Add Tech Stacks

Configure Branch Templates

Deploy the code

Promote code from one stage to another and create multiple stages with:

  • Deployment mode

  • Kubernetes cluster configuration

  • load balancing

  • Jenkins account

  • SonarQube account

  • Cloud Tags

Create multiple stages

Promote code to various stages

Gain visibility into DevOps pipeline View statistics related to performance of the team across sprints during application development, security issues in code repositories, best practices followed by the team, and overall efficiency of DevOps pipeline.
Executive Dashboards

Provides insights to Executive and Business teams into various aspects of the business that include:

  • Product Portfolios by Priority, Number of Products, Top Performing Portfolios.

  • Drill-down into Products, Teams

Provide insights to Technical teams about product development process that includes:

  • Release Trains and associated products

  • Team Maturity statistics

  • Team composition by roles, cost areas, company, and teams

Data Pipeline Studio

This is the age of big data with a humongous amount of data getting generated every day through various channels. This data must be cleansed, processed, transformed, and analyzed to draw actionable insights. The data used for analysis or AI/ML models must be of high quality in order to make reliable and accurate business decisions. Calibo Accelerate's Data Pipeline Studio helps you to create a data pipeline from source to visualization stages within a few clicks and with minimal coding requirements and provides accurate insights from the data.

What you want to acheive Description How can you achieve this using Calibo Accelerate
Create Teams, Add Users, and Assign Roles to users Create teams to work on products, add users to teams and assign appropriate roles to users. Create custom roles if you need roles with specific permissions.
Create Product Portfolio

Create portfolios to group and manage your data products logically.

 
Create Products

Create products, add them to appropriate portfolios to align them with business goals.

Create Feature

Create a feature in which you want to create your data pipeline.
Define Requirements

Define the business requirements for the data pipelines that you want to create and get them approved through an approval workflow, and link them to stories in Agile tool.

 

 Define Business Requirements
Design Artifacts

Based on business requirements, create artifacts like approach documents, UI mockup designs:

  • Functional approach diagrams

  • Space in a collaborative space

  • User research documents

 Create Designs
Develop the product

Add the required tools and tech stack to develop the product and create a data pipeline with the following stages:

  • Data Sources

  • Data Integration

  • Data Lake

  • Data Transformation

  • Data Quality

  • Data Visualization

Add Tech Stacks

Create a Data Pipeline

Gather data from multiple sources like social media posts, CSVs of downloaded feedback forms

In the data source stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required nodes configure them:

  • CSV

  • MySQL

  • Excel

 Data Sources
Combine the data coming from various sources

In the data integration stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required tools like:

  • Databricks

  • Snowflake

 

 Data Integration
Store the combined data

In the data lake stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required data lake:

  • Amazon S3

  • Snowflake

 Add Snowflake as a data lake
Group or combine data for analysis

In the data transformation stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required data transformation tool:

  • Databricks

  • Snowflake

Create Databricks Transformation job

Create Snowflake Transformation job

Improve the quality of the data

After data transformation, the data is pushed into the data lake. From here the data goes through the data quality stage:

  • Databricks

  • Snowflake

 Data Quality

 

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