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Integrated Product Change

Management from IBM

With the dramatic surge in new product

development programs and the rapid changesin the global business environment, it is likelythat your enterprise is experiencing:

Increasing complexity andaccelerating changes

Unrelenting financial pressures

The need to manage risk better

Pressures to comply with keyengineering and design processes

Increasingly organizationally andgeographically distributed teams

The demands for more innovativeproducts to grow your business

As a result, your organization is likely feelingthe pressure to get more products into thepipeline faster. At the same time, the moreversions, team members and sites involved inproduct delivery, the greater the risk ofproduct quality issues and project delays.

Integrated product change management canhelp you meet these challenges.

What is integrated product changemanagement?

In a nutshell, integrated product changemanagement synchronizes changes, nomatter where they are initiated. It includes:

Requirements management andsystem design for all your systems,down to the component level

Integration of requirements,configuration and change

management with product life cyclemanagement

Integrated product change managementfundamentals

Product changes occur throughout thedevelopment life cycle. They come from everypart of your enterprisefrom marketing tocustomer support and even from keepingpace with competitors. IBM works withmajor MCAD and ECAD vendors to integratedifferent development environments andsynchronize the product change management

process.

With IBM Rational integrated productchange management solutions, you canmanage change in the various disciplinessoftware, electronics and mechanicaltoensure strong collaboration and track theimpact of change wherever and whenever itoccurs. You can also:

Reduce the time it takes topropagate changes throughout yourentire design team.

Reduce turnaround time in designand defect resolution.

Reduce the amount of missedchanges that are discovered late inthe project.

Improve the management of multipleengineering disciplines.

Increase the visibility of schedules,including impact of requirement andproduct changes.

Manage project costs better.

Make the most of your existingprocess investment.

Introducing IBM Rational integrated

product change management solutionsWith our integrated development products,IBM delivers the technology that supportschange management for all disciplines duringthe product development life cycle:

Telelogic Change transforms yourefforts to manage change efficientlyand integrates easily with TelelogicSynergy and other products to


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provide an end-to-end changemanagement solution.

Telelogic Synergy helps softwaredevelopment teams work faster andeasier by increasing communicationand collaboration.

Rational ClearQuest provides

defect tracking, process automation,reporting and life cycle traceabilityfor better visibility and control of theproduct development life cycle.

Rational ClearCase providessophisticated version control,workspace management, paralleldevelopment support and buildauditing to improve productivity.

Telelogic DOORS, the market-and technology-leading family ofsolutions for requirementsdefinition and requirementsmanagement, improves quality by

optimizing communication andcollaboration and by promotingcompliance and verification.

Telelogic Change

Telelogic Change is a Web-based, changemanagement solution for request trackingand reporting that easily integrates withexisting development and applicationenvironments. Its central repositoryharmonizes your communication with changesources and application life cyclemanagement products and its enterprisechange management process provides

consistency and change request trackingthroughout your organization.

With its flexible change managementcapabilities, you can automate processes fortracking and managing changes to businessgoals, IT processes, product requirements,systems and embedded software, softwareapplications and Web sites. This helps you:

Increase quality by reducing the riskof undesirable changes beingimplemented.

Improve accountability bycomprehensively tracking all changerequests.

Telelogic Synergy

Telelogic Synergy is a task-basedconfiguration management solution that:

Accelerates release management andbuild management processes

Maximizes the efficiency of limiteddevelopment resources

Unites distributed developmentteams

Synergy offers a flexible distributedrepository and a proven, team-orientedworkflow approach to software development.It takes change tools beyond simple changetracking and version management to provide

comprehensive life cycle control for yourorganizations software development assets.Using the Synergy integrated centraldatabase, distributed teams can be confidentthat they are all working from the same page.The result: greater productivity, higherquality products and faster time-to-market.

Rational ClearQuest

IBM Rational ClearQuest change managementsoftware enables you to manage yoursoftware life cycle more effectively with:

Real-time reporting and processenforcement to improve project

visibility and control

Automated workflows and e-mailnotifications to enhance teamcommunication and coordination

Test management that unifiesdevelopment and testing activities,from planning through results, forimproved software quality

Access control, electronic signatures,repeatable processes and audit trailsto simplify compliance management

Web interface for easy access fromvirtually anywhere

Integration with requirements,development, build, test, deploymentand portfolio management tools tofacilitate rapid response to change

With ClearQuest, you have access to theinformation you need to make betterdecisions. You can more effectively managetasks and schedules and respond rapidly tocustomer needs. The automated workflowscontrol and enforce development processesfrom requirements definition throughproductionand help improve teamcommunication and coordination. By makingprocess enforcement visible, Rational

ClearQuest helps your project teams stayfocused on their ultimate goaldeliveringhigh-quality software on time.

Rational ClearCase

IBM Rational ClearCase software balancesyour development teams need for flexibilitywith your organizations need for control:

It provides controlled access tosoftware assets, including

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requirements, design documents,models, test plans and test results.

Parallel development support,automated workspace managementand baseline management enableyou to create applications rapidly.

Secure version management and

reliable build auditing help ensurehigh-quality code.

Development and integration models,private workspaces and publicintegration areas let you workindependently, yet collaborateeffectively with your team.

User authentication and audit trailshelp your organization meetcompliance requirements withminimal administrative hassle foryou.

With access virtually anytime, anywhere,Rational ClearCase software gives you thefreedom to work efficiently where and whenyou need.

Telelogic DOORS

Telelogic DOORS is a multi-platform systemthat captures, links, analyzes, traces andmanages changes to requirements. It alsohelps ensure that what you develop conformsto requirements and complies withregulations. As a result:

It improves collaboration byproviding greater visibility of yourproject goals.

It ensures conformance to contractsand compliance to regulations.

You can respond to changingcustomer needs effectively and undercontrol.

You can deliver the high qualitysystems and software yourcustomers need, on time and withinbudget.

DOORS has proven itself on some of theworld's most challenging projects, in somecases managing thousands of requirementsand traceability links. It can do this withfeatures such as:

Comprehensive traceability analysiscapabilities that help ensure that norequirement is overlooked

Change notification that ensures thatchanges are not missed and thattheir effects can be thoroughlyanalyzed

Integration with popular design,development and test environmentsfor complete life cycle traceability

An intuitive document-orientedinterface that is easy to adopt

How in tegrated product changemanagement works

When you integrate the individualcomponents of the Rational integratedproduct change management solution, you

get comprehensive change and configurationmanagement from beginning to end. TelelogicChange interfaces quickly and easily withTelelogic Synergy, DOORs and RationalClearCase.

For example, when Change is integrated withSynergy, you can:

Link change requests toimplementation tasks such as anindividuals work assignment.

Create configurations based oncompleted change requests.

Generate top-down and bottom-upreports.

And, when you integrate Change withDOORS, you can:

Import approved user requirementscaptured in Change to DOORS.

Manage change requests madeagainst requirements.

Enjoy full traceability betweenrequirements, engineering changerequests and the file changes madein development.

Meanwhile, the Change and ClearCase

integration uses the Change interface to trackand report changes to software assetsmanaged in ClearCase. Activities are linked tochange requests so that you can:

Maintain traceability from changerequest to activity to ClearCaseartifacts.

Query assigned activities.

Report activity progress.

Finally, the integration of Rational ClearQuestand DOORS tracks a change request throughits entire life cycle, providing statusinformation on DOORS artifacts affected by

their implementation such as requirementsand tests. It improves coordination of thechange control process for projects that useDOORS for requirements management andClearQuest for change management byremoving time-consuming and error-pronemanual processes.

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For an example of how this all fits together,consider the case of an aerospace companythat is developing a new aircraft. Thecompany needs to manage and coordinatethe internal systems engineering anddevelopment activities of the new aircraftwith the activities of subcontractors that aredistributed over different sites, while beinginnovative, working faster and keeping costsdown. Some of their challenges include:

Making sure the entire teamcommunicates their priorities

Notifying the entire team aboutchanges

Making it easy for everyone to knowthe status of the project

Ensuring that all aspects of thesystems involved are compliant withindustry and engineering standards

IBM integrated product change managementcan easily tackle these challenges. There areseveral options for handling the changes tothe software aspect of the project:

The integration of Telelogic DOORS,IBM Rational ClearQuest and Rational

ClearCase for Unified Requirementsand Change Management

The integration of Telelogic DOORs,Telelogic Change and Synergy

Eclipse-based desktop integration

For managing the changes in the mechanicaland electrical portions of the aircraft, thecompany can use existing products with pointproduct integrations. To manage and track

changes that span all disciplines involved inthe development of the aircraft, the companycan use the capabilities provided by anintegration of DOORS, ClearQuest, Changeand Rational Team Concert (RTC based onJazz), which is Rationals new technologyplatform for collaborative software delivery.

Why IBM for integrated product changemanagement?

IBM can deliver the tools and the specializedglobal development, sales, services andsupport necessary for comprehensive,successful integrated product changemanagement. We are a leading provider ofsolutions for automating and supporting bestpracticesfrom the powerful modeling ofbusiness processes and enterprisearchitectures to the requirements-drivendevelopment of advanced systems andsoftware.

Using our integrated platform for systemsand software delivery and our process andbest practices support, we can help youintegrate your systems domain with your ITdomain, so that you can align productdevelopment life cycles with businessobjectives and customer needs. This helpsyou improve quality and predictabilitydramatically while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs.

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