Essentials of design management with Rational Software Architect

Learn how design management contributes to collaborative lifecycle management for IT organizations.

IBM® Rational® Software Architect enables teams to share, collaborate, and manage design information across the application development lifecycle. This introduction to the self-paced learning materials for Design Management provides links to additional resources. Explore the selection of help topics, tours, tutorials, samples, videos, and articles to learn more about the features that are described in each module.

[CLM scenario] in bold italic text indicates an optional scenario that you can use to learn more. While this self-paced training focuses on design management, the CLM scenario covers other aspects of collaborative lifecycle management (CLM), such as requirements management, quality management, or change and configuration management.

Tip: This self-paced training is scenario-driven to teach design management in the context of a realistic project development lifecycle. To understand how the Design Management features and capabilities relate to each of the modules, see Mapping product features to scenario sections.

Audience

This introductory self-paced training is for architects, designers, and lead developers interested in collaborative design management with Rational Software Architect.

Prerequisites

You should understand the basic concepts involved in IT architecture and design.

Time required

You need approximately 10 hours to read the training material and complete the lab exercises.

Using the self-paced training

This self-paced training provides an introduction to design management. It explains how to integrate design into the overall application and systems engineering lifecycles. You learn how teams can collaborate on designs across organizational boundaries to more efficiently manage a collaborative development lifecycle.

This course shows you how to complete these tasks:
  • Identify the key capabilities of the Design Management offering
  • Share models in a common repository for efficient collaborative work
  • Create design resources by using a web browser
  • Explore and search a common repository
  • Comment and annotate shared models
  • Update design resources by using the Rational Software Architect Extension for Design Management
  • Understand lifecycle traceability and impact analysis
  • Manage design reviews in a team environment
  • Use dashboards for real-time team collaboration
  • Create reports to communicate model information
The self-paced training covers practical collaborative activities for users of IBM Rational Software Architect, Version 4.0. The licensing for the Design Management Server is role-based. You can purchase client access licenses for the following roles:
  • Designer: Team members who create and modify designs, or need to create snapshots or conduct design reviews
  • Contributor: Team members or stakeholders who need to collaborate, review, and comment on designs

Help topic icon Design management user roles

Before you start the self-paced training

Self-paced training content

In addition to the lecture material listed below, the self-paced training contains lab exercises.

Help topic icon Accessing the lab instructions

The following lab exercises are available:
  • Share design information with the team
  • Explore design options to meet business needs
  • Examine technical solutions to evaluate development effort
  • Refine designs by using the Eclipse desktop environment
  • Create and manage formal design reviews
  • Customize design management dashboards
  • Work with multiple workspaces and deliver change sets

To understand the scenario that is used in the self-paced training, follow the sequence of lecture materials listed below. Each module indicates when a related exercise is available.


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