Establishing the project scope and implementing the project

Integrating : Focal Point® and the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management : Business case scenarios : Establishing the project scope and implementing the project

In Focal Point^®, the project has been approved for implementation with planned business needs. The scoped business needs must be communicated to the implementation team to ensure adequate understanding and provides traceability. This will also set the stage for future updates.

Before you begin

Configure the integration between Focal Point^® and Rational Team Concert:

▪ Configuring Focal Point^® as a consumer in CLM applications

▪ Configuring Focal Point^® as a provider to CLM applications.

Objectives

▪ Ensure that the business needs that must be implemented are clearly communicated to the technical team.

▪ Communicate information from Focal Point^® to assist the implementation team in planning, such as priority.

▪ Ensure that there is traceability between the high-level business needs and the work items that are being worked on.

▪ Provide visibility to high-level stakeholders of actual progress and any delay

▪ Enable portfolio-level view of overall project health with accurate data based on CLM artifacts

▪ Enable stakeholder insight across strategy and execution

Steps

The scenarios are designed to help you understand the process of working with the integrations and highlights various techniques that can be used while implementing the integrations in a scenario.

1 Prioritize the business needs and define the project scope

2 Publish business needs as high-level work items into Rational Team Concert

3 Implement the project work and preview linked Focal Point^® business needs

4 Fetch the status and view the progress of project implementation

5 Align the project implementation based on the business strategy

6 Expand the project scope