Creating a WBS element in Rational Team Concert

In IBM® Rational Team Concert™, you can create work items for projects managed in IBM Rational® Project Conductor. The work items can be viewed, edited and tracked as WBS elements of projects in Rational Project Conductor.

Before you begin

To create WBS elements in Rational Team Concert:
  • You must be added to the Rational Project Conductor program or project.

About this task

You must create the work items for a project only. If you create work items for a program, you cannot view these work items in Rational Project Conductor. This is because in the project management process template, programs can only contain projects, and no other work items.

To create a WBS element using Rational Team Concert:

Procedure

  1. Access the Rational Project Conductor project area using the Web UI or the Eclipse client. For information about accessing a project area, see Accessing programs and projects in Rational Team Concert.
  2. Create a work item:
    • In the Web UI, click Work Items in the header. In the left pane, click the down arrow on Create Work Item and select the type of work item to create, such as Task.
    • In the Eclipse client, in the Team Artifacts view, expand the project area node, right-click Work Items and select New. In the Create New Work item wizard, select the work item type, such as Task. Click Finish.
  3. Enter the Summary for the new work item.
  4. The work item Type is displayed as Task. You can also select any other work item type, for example, Defect.
  5. The project area is displayed as the Rational Project Conductor project and cannot be modified. The team area is displayed as the project team, and cannot be modified either.
  6. To assign an owner for the work item, select a user name in the Owned By field. This creates a resource assignment record for the work item in Rational Project Conductor. The resource is also assigned at the project level.
  7. To add the element to an iteration within the project, in the Planned for field, select the iteration. This nests the WBS element under an iteration in the project WBS.
    Remember: To select an iteration, iterations must have been created for the project. You can create iterations from both Rational Project Conductor and Rational Team Concert. When you update the iteration dates in Rational Team Concert, the iteration expected schedule is updated in Rational Project Conductor.
  8. To nest the element under a parent element in the project WBS, set the parent element:
    1. Click the Links tab.
    2. Click the down arrow next to Add, and click Parent.
    3. Search for and select the element that you want to set as the parent. Click OK.
      Note: You cannot select a task as a parent element because in the project management default process template, tasks cannot have child elements.
  9. Enter the other fields as required. Click Save.

What to do next

You can now view and update the work item in Rational Project Conductor. To go to Rational Project Conductor, in your Web browser, type the URL in the format: https://127.0.0.1:9443/jazz/epmWeb.

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