Depending on your role and goals, you will have different tasks to do to get started with
a project. This topic provides pointers to information on initial steps for you to take.
About this task
By default,
IBM® Engineering Workflow Management supports
the following roles:
- Server and repository administrators
- Project administrators
- Team leads
- Team members
The following diagram demonstrates an example workflow for a team using project in Engineering Workflow
Management. The
workflow described is only an example of how your team might set up and get started with a project.
Although many of the steps can be done using either the web interface or the Eclipse client, the
steps for project administrators and team leads link to topics that refer to the web interface and
the steps for team members link to topics that refer to the Eclipse client.
Procedure
- Get started with a role that closely matches your goals:
| Role |
Description |
| Project administrator |
Your goals might include defining iterations and plans, defining team processes, creating
teams, defining your source control setup, creating builds, and tracking status. |
| Team lead |
Your goals might include defining your team and team members, creating iteration plans,
assigning work, delivering source code, setting up builds, and tracking progress with
reports. |
| Team member |
Your goals might include getting connected with the project, managing your assigned work,
and managing your code. |
- Explore a feature or product area that you are interested in:
| Feature or goal |
Description |
| Iteration planning |
Explore key concepts and learn how to create an iteration plan, add work items to the plan,
and manage team assignments in the iteration. |
| Dashboards |
Learn about using dashboards in the web interface to get an at-a-glance view of the status
of your project, team, or workload. |
| Overview of Reporting |
Learn about using reports to track progress and monitor other data for your project areas
and teams. |
| The client
for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE |
Learn about using the client for Microsoft
Visual Studio IDE to take advantage of project process, source control, builds, and work item
features. |
- Start with a tutorial:
- See other helpful topics:
