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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: JBingo on March 29, 2007, 12:52:48 pm

Title: Help: many subsets of project requirements
Post by: JBingo on March 29, 2007, 12:52:48 pm

Hi there,

My company produces software which must comply with specific state gov't regulations, meaning at least 30 or so different sets of regs in the U.S. alone.  On top of that, 10% of our customers are 90% of our revenue.

As a result, we need to know whether a specific feature is unique to one state or shared by many; or whether a feature is used by only 1 of our large customers or by many.

Can anybody recommmend a good way to manage this in EA?  I envision creating different subset "views" of our superset of requirements, tailoring each view to each customer.  If we stop supporting customer X, it would be nice to identify any features that exist only for that customer (so we can remove them from the software.)

Thanks!

Title: Re: Help: many subsets of project requirements
Post by: «Midnight» on March 29, 2007, 01:54:12 pm

My suggestions, for what they're worth...

Take a close look at the EA Report and Search View - under the View menu when you have a project open. Spend the time to become familiar with the advanced Search View features. Then spend some time looking into the EA schema (the data structures EA uses to store model information). You can write and save some very powerful searches. Reports based on these may satisfy your requirements.

If not, consider building an add-in. This could run from within EA or as a separate program. It might not actually use the EA API, but simply query the model as a database.

David