Introduction
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1.) Ideas and the problem in their execution
Features
Change Management
Version Control And Configuration Management
Rational team concert includes integrated version control and configuration management subsystem. It supports parallel development for teams of any size – from single groups of developers to big teams formed from many separate groups. The teams can be located somewhere in one place or be distributed everywhere in the world. The subsystem is seamlessly integrated with change management capabilities, so you can easily track which changes were made in codes, documents, and other files based on any tasks assigned to any developers.
Planning
Automated building
Reports And Dashboards
Rational Team Concert can work with reports developed in external tools such as Eclipse BIRT, Rational Publishing Engine, Rational Insight, etc. Those reports can be printed or imported into Rational Team Concert to be able for generating data directly within Rational Team Concert in a typical Web-browser. Moreover, you can convert some reports into dashboards to control project status in real-time.
Process
Any project in Rational Team Concert is based on a process. A process in Rational Team Concert is a combination of roles, permissions, work item types, follow-up and behavior triggers, timelines, etc. The tool can strictly automate the activities for different users which have assignments to one or several roles. It will guarantee that nobody will do something that is forbidden to him and everybody can access only the data which is permitted to access for him.
Collaboration
You can set components owners at the level of sub-teams or single developers so that only some developers could access these components. Capabilities to setup visibility of project areas and separate components allow you to involve a lot of external developers restricting their access to some data. For example, external developers will not even know that there are other projects in your organization or other components with artifacts within a project. You can give access to customer representatives with read-only access for monitoring purposes.
Community
Softacus Services
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Related and Referenced Topics
Blog Articles:
Basics of Links and Link Types in IBM DOORS Next Generation - learn the basics about the linking and link types in IBM DOORS Next.
Linking Techniques in IBM DOORS Next - article explaining basic concepts and showing multiple ways of creation of links between artifacts.
Link By Attribute Feature in IBM DOORS Next - the article explains how to use the "Link by attribute" function to automatically create, update, or delete one or more links between artifacts based on values in the attributes of the artifact.
Softacus Widgets:
Link Switcher - widget developed by Softacus, that converts the context of artifacts links in a very short time.
Module Link Statistics - extension that provides users with a quick overview of the amount of the links in specific link types in a module.
Link Type Change- extension developed by Softacus designed to enhance the functionality of DOORS Next Generation by allowing users to manipulate the direction of a link or convert it to another type of link.
Links Builder- extension that allows the users to create a link between two artifacts in DOORS Next Generation according to the certain rules.
Link by Foreign Attribute - this extension allows users to create links between artifacts in the selected module(s), based on the attributes values.
Show Attributes of Linked Artifacts - this extension shows the attributes and links of the artifact that is currently selected.