This tutorial consists of three modules describing the
integration with the Requirements Management and Change and Configuration
Management applications of Rational® solution for
Collaborative Lifecycle Management.
In this tutorial, you as business analyst, create and publish
business needs to the Rational solution for CLM applications,
feed back the important performance indicators to IBM® Rational Focal Point™ for
continuous monitoring and course correction, and create traceability
reports.
Learning objectives
- Create workspace, elements, and attributes in Rational Focal Point
- Configure the integration between Rational Focal Point and Rational solution for CLM.
- Create business needs in Rational Focal Point and
publish them as requirements into an existing project area in Rational Requirements Composer.
- Update the requirements in Rational Requirements Composer,
and view and track the progress of these in Rational Focal Point.
- Publish the business needs as work items for project management
into Rational Team Concert.
- Update the work items in Rational Team Concert,
and view and track the progress of these in Rational Focal Point.
- Generate traceability reports in Rational Focal Point.
Time required
This tutorial should take
approximately 120 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts
related to this tutorial, it could take longer to complete.
Skill level
Advanced
Audience
- The module on configuring the integrations are for administrators.
- The module on managing the business needs with the CLM applications
are for mangers, analysts and stakeholders.
The audience for this tutorial is administrators for
Rational Focal Point and
Rational solution for CLM.
Prerequisites and assumptions
This
tutorial is designed to help you with the integration configuration
and covers only a few uses cases to show some of the possible tasks
that you can do when the integration is set up.
- Integration with the Requirement Management application lessons:
A project area is created in the Requirements Management application
and the lessons focus on publishing the business needs from Rational
Focal Point as feature artifacts into this project area.
- Integration with the Change and Configuration Management application
lessons: The lessons show how to create a Rational Team Concert project
area from Rational Focal Point and
also publish business needs from Rational Focal Point as work items
into Rational Team Concert.
- You must have Global administrator rights for Rational Focal Point and Rational solution for CLM.