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Rational Focal Point for Project Managementand RTC - 1.0 Beta 1 Check Point

Erich Gamma/Dirk Bäumer

Planning relevant C/ALM Linking

Mats Gothe & Dirk Bäumer

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Project Area Links

To support CALM PPM scenarios we propose to add the following links between project areas:

– Contributes to: if a project Area C contributes to a project area P

– And the reverse link between P and C: comprises (or comprised of)

Project Area B Project Area C

Project Area A

Contributes To Contributes To

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Plan linking

Due to the fact that in RTC a project area can be used to deliver more than one release pure project area linking is not enough. So we have to introduce links between plans and corresponding RRC and RQM artifacts as well:

Plan P2

Plan P1

Contributes To

Test PlanRequirement Setimplements Tested by

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Work item links across Project Areas

Contributes To links between project areas and plans can spawn repository boundaries. This implies that links between work items on these plans must be able to spawn repository boundaries as well. Since a parent / child relationship implies semantic (for example last child closes parent) which we might not be able to provide across repository / project area boundaries we propose to add a special work item link here as well.

Work Item W2

Work Item W1

Contributes To