We are using the following states to tack our use case:
Proposed - Item has been proposed
Accepted - The entity has been accepted as being within the project scope and needs to be elaborated and can be traced to a requirement.
In Design - Approved for design to start but they are getting updated as the design progresses. The design can be traced to all use cases it implements.
In Development - The design is being coded.
Frozen - The entity has been checked and approved by the project team and the design is frozen. <<At this point we would like to lock them and ensure that all changes are logged as maintenance object defects, changes and issues, and also that no one will be able to delete the item.>>
As Built - In line with the final implementation.
Out of Scope - Not in the scope of the project.
All members of our project team are using spreadsheets with imbedded queries that use an ODBC connection to the sql server database (so they can update dynamically) and auto filters.
For example, we have a spreadsheet report showing the use cases statuses described above for target versions and builds.
In addition we have a spreadsheet report for problems, issues and changes associated with frozen use cases. The problem being that using EA you don’t know that there is a problem if you don’t select the element but you don’t know to select the element if you don’t know if there is a problem etc cetera
We have other reports for example to track the maturing of the whole project tracing from requirements to business processes and use cases and then to designs, test cases and user document topics.
Are there any plans to build in a reports or/and to provide a report building tool into EA.
Is any one else doing something else to do this sort of thing an another way?
