You can start with the Development Process and, at a later
time, customize it based on your needs.
For customization information, see Adding or modifying lifecycles.
Benefits and features
The Development Process
provides the following benefits and features.
- Is a simple, easy to use CR lifecycle.
- Is suitable for small to medium teams.
- Provides a good starting point to customize your own process.
- Contains optional interlocked requirements change management
- Allows you to view and create IBM® Rational® Synergy tasks.
- Includes pre-made reports to locate and visualize all CRs at one
time.
- Is configured to send email notifications when a CR is assigned.
Typical usage
This usage scenario involves
several users. Based on their assigned privileges, users can perform
particular actions for CRs in given states.
- A quality engineer discovers a defect and submits a new CR. The
CR begins its lifecycle in the entered state.
- A team lead, who has the assigner privilege,
reviews the CR in the subsystem he or she oversees and determines
that the defect must be fixed. Then, the team lead transitions the
CR into the assigned state and assigns the developer
as the resolver of the CR.
- The developer receives email notification and reviews the CR.
Then, in Rational Synergy,
the developer creates a task to fix the defect and associates that
task to the CR.
- The developer performs the work that is necessary to fix the defect
and transitions the CR into the resolved state.
- The quality engineer verifies that the defect was fixed, determines
that the fix is sufficient, and transitions the CR into the concluded state.