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
- 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.
- 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.
- Enter the Summary for the new work item.
- The work item Type is displayed as Task. You can
also select any other work item type, for example, Defect.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To nest the element under a parent element in the project
WBS, set the parent element:
- Click the Links tab.
- Click the down arrow next to Add,
and click Parent.
- 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.
- 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.