Plans

You can use plans to manage work items within the context of fixed development periods within a project. You can create a plan overview, create and modify work items assignments for team members, track the progress of the work that is committed for the iteration, and create additional documentation. Rational Team Concert™ projects are organized into a series of fixed-length development periods called iterations. Each timeline has its own set of iterations. Timeline, iterations, start and end dates, and the current iteration designation are defined in the project area overview Process Iterations list.

Plans are composed of a set of work items. Changes to the plan are reflected in the work items; for example, new entries in the plan create new work items. Changes in work item are reflected in the plan; for example, when a work item is closed, that status is reflected in the plan. This keeps the plan synchronized with current project activity and minimizes the need for redundant documentation. The plan structure is also flexible. You can group the work items in the plan predefined or user-defined plan modes. Plans are accessible to all team members in the Team Artifacts view in the project's Plans folder.

You can use the plan editor to manage three kinds of information:

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