Managing Change From Customer Request to Implementation

1. Managing Change From Customer Request to Implementation Jean-Louis Vignaud & Dominic Tavassoli

2. Change is inevitable • All Projects are subject to change… a high risk challenge • Increasing number of contributors & stakeholders • Agility needs reactivity • Usability is key • Change may impact the agreed baseline of Requirements • Need a formal organization-tuned process, • Assess, decide, communicate • Change traceability • Relate project Development activities to Requirements and Change Management decisions • Establish a full audit trail • Need to record and manage change impacting all project artifacts

3. Predefined, customizable Lifecycles, allowing assignment, multiple reviewers, electronic signatures Web-based submission, transitions, analysis history, reporting Work on the Requirements is carried out inside DOORS DOORS/Change empowers your Requirements Change Request Process Proposed Changes are assessed and approved Changes are proposed against requirements Proposed Changes are applied

4. Working against a Requirement Change Request • Setting the default RCR indicates that all changes are to be tracked against this context • DOORS/Change builds the traceability report automatically • Enforced process control can be activated

5. Unrivalled usability • DOORS/Change brings critical enterprise functionality with no additional learning curve • Users work as they normally would in DOORS • Changes are automatically tracked • Effortless, intuitive change control of: • Requirements edition, creation, removal • Link creation and deletion • Document restructuring • No constraints - multiple people may propose changes against a same DOORS module • DOORS Shareable edit & Exclusive edit modes

6. Streamlining the Review & Approval process • Notifications, reports and in-tool lists of changes improve communication • Automatically created change-focused views for easier review in DOORS • Web views provide powerful, intuitive enterprise-wide review • Designated reviewers can each indicate approval and feedback

7. Applying a Requirements Change Request • Once approved, Requirement Change Requests can be applied • The changes then appear in DOORS for all users

8. Lifecycle Change Management • DOORS/Change provides organizations with much more than a requirement change process • It provides you with a best-in-class, proven, Enterprise-wide Lifecycle Change Management solution! • Powerful • Flexible • Scalable • Easy-to-Use • Powered by award-winning Telelogic SYNERGY

9. Requirements Change Request Process Requirement Change Request Changes Providing a global view of change System Change Request Process SystemChange Request The Lifecycle Change Management Audit trail provides visibility into the complete change across the Enterprise

10. System Change Management • Telelogic’s Lifecycle Change Management solution allows you to implement a central, high-level, system change process across engineering & business • Record and manage Change Requests that will potentially impact all project artifacts • Software, hardware, documentation, UML models, test cases… • May lead to a change of requirements • May lead to implementation activities System Change Request Process

11. Controlled, mandatory fields in Red List box selection for ease of use Submitting a System Change Request • Forms and attributes are adaptable to your needs

12. Authorized transition steps Information captured during the process High level change process • Implement your corporate process • Capture critical information from key team members across the globe

13. Associated Requirement CRs are indicated History log is automatically maintained Comments and discussions can also be captured Powerful Parent-Child hierarchy • Requirement Change Requests can be children of a System CR (or submitted stand-alone)

14. Integrated Requirements Gathering Customer Needs… • DOORS/Change also provides a best-in-class Web interface for the request capture and review process • Personalized Web forms • Trace and document decisions • Requirements organized in DOORS and allocated to specific releases • Captures the original “voice” of the customer User NeedsRequirements Product Review Board Process

15. Important information is captured, displayed and traceability is maintained Approved requests are included in DOORS

16. Implementation Process Implementation Requests Tasks & changes Driving and Tracking Implementation System Change Request Process SystemChange Request Implementation carried out under CM control: SYNERGY/CM, ClearCase…

17. Requirements Implementation Process • Create implementation requests and engineering tasks directly from the requirements • Complete traceability from needs to code • Impact analysis • Communication • Better project control • Ensure you're doing the right thing • Real-time Reporting on progress, coverage • Building your knowledgebase

18. Complete traceability and visibility Reporting available when development is under SYNERGY/CM control

19. DOORS/Change implements process improvement best practices • DOORS/Change helps you stay in control! • Requirements Change Control • Scalable, enforceable CMMI change process (company-wide change control board…) • Impact analysis and traceability of a System Change Request • Requirements Gathering • Implement a open to all, formal, repeatable but easy to use process • Requirements Driven Development • Offshore development process control • Quality initiatives certification (CMMI…) • Regulatory certification (DO178B, Sarbanes-Oxley…)

20. Raw Information Requirements Driven Testing Integrated Requirements Gathering Change Integrated Defect Management Requirements Driven Development Extending Lifecycle Change Management Acceptancetesting User Requirements Specification Functional Specification System testing Integrationtesting Design System Build

21. DOORS/Change Key Benefits • Reduce project risks and increase customer confidence • Clear impact assessment and understanding • Improve productivity with focused development teams and reduced rework risk • Clearly defined and communicated requirements changes • Improve process control • Trusted repeatable CMMI process and automatic traceability between requirements and related development activities • Information is available for specialized, distributed teams • Reduce scope creep and streamline development • Real-time visibility of the relationships between requirements and development activities • Track System Change Requests all the way to the impact to Requirements base and implementation information

22. Key Benefits by Role • Management • Extended Change Management covers the full lifecycle, preventing loss or miscommunication of fundamental requirements changes • Analyst & DOORS user • Intuitive change control without the productivity hit or learning gap • Early impact analysis of requirements changes involving all relevant stakeholders • Reliable requirement change propagation after approval • Developer • Relevant information available fast • Approved requirements changes are clearly and efficiently communicated, reducing risk of rework

23. Key Benefits by Role • QA/Tester • Approved requirements changes are clearly and timely communicated to the Test team, improving efficiency • Administrator • Company-wide access for submission, discussion, review and reporting • State-of-the-art features such as electronic signature, user-tuned interfaces and multiple reviewer system, as well as the security and process control levels, out of the box

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25. Powered by SYNERGY/Change • Full Web-based interface • Complete with predefined reports & process templates • Customizable workflow, submission, and transition forms • Approval management • Attachment support • History & Discussion logs • Advanced querying & full text search • Built In Reporting & Open API • Trend analysis • Distributed team support

26. Enterprise Scalability • No Restriction for platform support (UNIX or Windows) • Everything on one server class machine • Server Tuning to ensure good performance over a large user base (3000 total users, 200 simultaneous active users) • No dependency on web technologies (ASP or IIS) to limit performance, viral infection, or security breaches • Supports HTTPS secure connections • LDAP support • Multi-lifecycle/process support

27. Process Flexibility • Predefine process template that is both extendible & customizable through the web-based interface • Add / modify / delete attributes • Add / modify / delete lifecycle state • Create multiple lifecycles based on the request type • Add / modify / delete forms • SYNERGY/Change API • Integrations • Data Migration • Notification • Built-in Process Control and Management to ease administration

28. Built-In Reporting, Querying, and Charting • Pre-defined or user-defined reporting consistency on every platform • Report and Query “builder” allow each user to easily create and share reports and queries • No dependency on 3rd party report tool (i.e. Crystal Reports) • Reporting and Query into CM database • Provides built-in Full Text Search capability that can be used across multiple databases • Support to allow charting of groups of states • (Open v.s. Closed trend) • Promote predefined charts for reports (matrix, pie) • Charts and Reports are platform independent