Analyzing the impact of change
To analyze changes in the project, you can create baselines after reviews, iterations, and other project milestones are completed. You can filter artifact views to track the status of artifacts. Use link validity to watch for the impact of changes in links between requirements and other artifacts.
About this task
Changes can come in various forms and from various sources. Some teams use change-management systems to record and submit stakeholder needs, enhancement requests, and defects on approved requirements. The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management helps teams record these types of requests as work items and link them to related requirements. When accepted, these requests can drive not only changes to the requirements, but also changes to linked plan items and test cases. Teams must implement processes to be aware of changes to requirements and linked artifacts and respond to those changes as they affect related artifacts.
Typically, your team defines processes for establishing baselines and artifact approvals. Your project lead can create a project baseline when requirement reviews, formal approvals, iterations, and other milestones have been completed. Baselines can provide a basis for analyzing change in the project. You can filter project artifacts lists for artifacts that have changed since a baseline date. You can also filter artifact views to show artifact status and other attributes.
Procedure
- Complete reviews of significant requirements and their related artifacts.
- Create project baselines to record milestones in the project development.
- Filter your Artifacts page to display artifacts that have changed since a particular milestone date. Create views for tracking artifact linking, tags, status, and other attributes. Add requirements views to the project dashboard.
- Configure and use to watch for the impact of changes in linked requirements and other artifacts. For information on cross-application linking in Engineering Lifecycle Management, see Linking to development, design, test, and requirement artifacts.