SpiraPlan is Inflectra’s Enterprise-level Program and Portfolio Management platform for Strategic Planning in Agile teams and organizations of all sizes. SpiraPlan combines world-class project management capabilities with software test management, QA, risk, and resource management, bug-tracking, requirements traceability, baselining, and source code management functionality to manage safety- and mission-critical applications and complex embedded systems.
Now in its 6th version, SpiraPlan boasts project-level templates and customizable workflows that are required in many regulated industries. Its centralized control center gives you a birds-eye view of how you are delivering on your company goals. From there you can drill all the way down to view your team’s progress at the task level. SpiraPlan has built-in agile planning boards, and real-time, cross-project reporting with Gantt charts, ODATA API, project associations, and requirements mapping.
Fully mobile responsive, SpiraPlan includes an integrated web-based document management system, email integration, and instant messaging features for smoother team collaboration. It is available in light and dark modes.
SpiraPlan is offered as an on-premise/air-gapped option or cloud-hosted (AWS or private cloud) Saas solutions. Its concurrent licensing model is designed for globally distributed teams and its free phone/email support is legendary.
To help you launch your project right, a combination of free and pay services are available. Among them are over 60 free plugins, migration paths from over a dozen legacy tools, hassle-free migration between the on-premise and cloud-hosting options, help with workflow setup, and tool customizations, etc.
SpiraTest is a trademark of Inflectra – a privately owned company from the Washington, DC area.
Brigitte I.
Advanced user of SpiraPlan
★★★★★
Full portfolio management tool for agile development
What do you like best?
SpiraPlan helps to perform real agile software development throughout the company by adressing every aspect that is necessary to deliver applications early with good quality.
It supports users of any role and not only the core IT people. Business people and product owners are guided by the tool by personalised views, boards and workflows, so any stakeholder gets those control to the project that reflects the needs of his role.
SpiraPlan combines functions that are normally spread over several tools. This makes portfolio management and application development easier and resuls are early visible and more true.
However, SpiraPlan can sychronise with the usual suspects of development tools that are already used. You can migrate existing projects once or just synch the data with Spira and keep working with the old tools, just consolidating projects within Spira to get overall planning insights.
Spira has a strong collaboration flavor so it helps to get and hold every necessary information with the tool. No Excel sheets any longer, sent in numerous versions by e-mail, forgotten on network drives or in sharepoint.
Spira can support oldfashioned waterfall work stiles and agile app development and combines the different kinds of projects into one tool to get overall control and information.
What do you dislike?
When defining templates for the reports you normally copy an existing template and enhance it to your own needs. You tend to leave unused intermediate templates in the system. You need to find your own way of housekeeping or unused old versions of report templates stay there forever.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Spira helps to become an active player in the digital transformation. Applications are no longer the support of your core business but the driver of your business. With Spira you can actively control the direction to proceed in a fast moving market. Any app can be quickly changed and delivered but keeps the software quality and data integrity needed for the core business.
Review source: G2.com
