Guided Control of your Peer Reviews Process

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Peer Review Excellence
DataDrill and Code Collaborator

Distributive Management has successfully completed an integration between its DataDrill EXPRESS and Smart Bears Code Collaborator.

Distributive Management's DataDrill is used to plan, monitor and control the peer review process, while Smart Bear's Code Collaborator is used to perform software peer reviews. When combined, they provide an integrated solution, allowing organizations to quickly lower defects, raise software quality and increase management visibility into the software development process.

The DataDrill best practice library provides a number of ready-to-use, industry best practice indicators for peer reviews.

Pre-built integration requires no technical support.
Lower software defects entering unit, systems and integrations test activities.
Increase management visibility into the software development process.

For more information about DataDrill EXPRESS, go to:

Distributive Management - Overview

For more information about Code Collaborator, go to:

SmartBear - Overview

SmartBear

WhitePaper: New Capability

Managing Peer Reviews with DataDrill and Code Collaborator

A combined DataDrill and Code Collaborator solution offers a number of key features that are not present in either internally-developed, open source or other commercial solutions:

Managers can establish planned expectations and targets for peer reviews and then monitor progress towards goals.
Up-to-date progress information is delivered to managers regarding peer review findings and issues.
Built-in rule analysis alerts managers to common mistakes and potential process errors.
Statistical analysis of peer review progress checks for unstable or erratic process implementation.
Ready-to-use best practice indicators for peer reviews.
Pre-built integration requires no technical support.

By providing the features above, the DataDrill - Code Collaborator solution empowers an organization to address both management and technical aspects of peer reviews. This focused solution helps your organization achieve its intended business goal for peer reviews,to deliver better software products. Other direct aspects of business value for this solution include:

Reduce the number of software defects entering unit, systems and integration test activities
Identify issues with requirement and design documents as early as practical.
Raise the level of software quality for the end user.
Increase management visibility into the software development process.

The benefits outlined above are quickly achieved, yielding a short period to realize ROI and to begin developing or expanding a competitive advantage in the delivery of software and software-intensive products. In addition, you can focus your business on true revenue generation, rather than spending valuable resources and time, defining technical integration or defining detailed peer review indicators.

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