Review work paradigm for experts are non EA-user?

[Alexey Halyavka]

Hello everybody,

We plan to migrate from IBM ReqPro to EA.
But there is an experts team they are non EA-users! :-/

Please advise,
What paradigm of reqs review work is provided with EA\EAlite for this class experts? :-?

Thanks advance!

Alexey

[Geert Bellekens]

Alexey,

I don't understand your question, sorry.

Geert

[fwoolz]

Alexey,

Are you looking for something along the lines of a tutorial?

[Alexey Halyavka]

Hi Geert, Hi Fred,

I describe ReqPro process:

1. Reqs engeneer creates a SRS doc artifact (MS Word rtf file) in ReqPro project.
2. Reqs engeneer writes Requirement in SRS doc marks text and creates
Req element in ReqPro DB.
3. Many times p.2   assuming that about 3000
4. After that Reqs engeneer unlinks SRS doc from ReqPro and sends it to Reviewers.
5. Reviewers use MS Word for edition of reqs ( assuming that about 800).
6. Reqs engeneer receives revised SRS doc and link it to ReqPro.
7. ReqPro search reqs changed and inform reqs engeneer on reqs list.
8. Req engeneer makes de[ch1089]ision about each change.

I'm interested on step 7.
Fred, I read EA RM manual and on-line help.

Alexey

[qwerty]

EA is not really prepared to easily (!) observe changes made to elements. There is an audit function, but I guess this will only partly do what you expect. The gurus here would probably write some add-in to intercept element changes and make them available or use database triggers. But none of the solutions would likely a help-yourself. You would need a specialist to do that. Or probably EA is not the right tool. EA is NOT a requirements management tool per se. It can aid with RM but it IS an UML modelling tool (which is something completely different).

q.

[Alexey Halyavka]

Sorrowfully, Qwerty!

I agree with you Sparx EA started as rich UML tool,
but now its more broadly.

Perhaps EALite can be prepared for this feature?!

Alexey

[Geert Bellekens]

I think q. is indeed right.
IIRC there are some integrations available with 3th party tools that do requirements.
It is probably either that, or write something yourself (which is what I would probably do)

Geert

[Dave_Bullet]

Do you want a workflow to approve changes? - if so I know of no such feature.

If you simply want to list changes modified in "last modified date" order you can do this via a search or by putting all requirements elements on a diagram then showing a "list view" of the diagram and sorting by modified (picking off the ones changed since the user last reviewed the list).

There is no feature to capture a "change comment"  Might be best in that case to use version control to check in or checkout packages.  IT means though creating one package per requirement so you can individually track changes

Another way might be to use the package baselining feature and "snapshot" each version - describing the change.  Actually - this might give you what you need.  You can compare the current package containing requirements with the previously baselined version.  EA will visually not only show you which elements are new or changed - but show you the note content changes.  I'd recommend you extract your requirements descriptions from the word documents and paste them into the note area for each requirement.  You can then use the compare feature.

[Sunshine]

Here is some food for thought.
1. Use baselining or version control in EA.
2. Publish the requirements as HTML. When publishing incorporate the feedback mechanism mentioned on the community site. Except provide the feedback on the object rather than the diagram. See URL for more details;
http://community.sparxsystems.com/resources/document-templates/add-diagram-feedback-and-comment-link-html-report
3. incorporate the feedback into the model and do diff on the baseline.
4. Re-baseline or version
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 until requirements are agreed.
 
Also there are some guidelines on using requirements on the community site you may wish to look at
http://community.sparxsystems.com/whitepapers/business-analysis/requirements-management-enterprise-architect

Hope that helps  

[jfzouain]

Alexey,

Please take a look at RaQuest, an add-on of EA for Requirement Management at a fraction of ReqPro.
Will do audit of changes per requirements, also will do #7.

Regards

Jose