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Suggestions and Requests / Request: Zoom to selected Object

« on: November 25, 2003, 11:18:37 am »

When I have large diagrams and I want to Zoom into a certain box in the middle or off to the side of things, it would be beneficial to have a "Zoom to Selected Object(s)" function that will zoom to whatever I have selected as the center instead of the page center.

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Suggestions and Requests / Request: Import from Source Dialog Box update

« on: November 25, 2003, 11:05:01 am »

There are two issues with the dialog box that could be expanded upon:

1) Remember last opened location. Currently, it goes back to the default location.

2) Allow to select sub-folders and automatically import all files in sub-folder that match the file type. Or, this can be an option somewhere so that you can toggle it as needed.

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General Board / Using EA for Work Breakdown estimation

« on: February 12, 2007, 12:14:40 pm »

So here is the goal (2 parts) I'm trying to achieve:

Part 1:

1. Catalog all requirements in EA model.
2. Create Use Cases against the requirements.
3. In some fashion identify tasks against those use cases. Currently I'm using a sequence diagram to determine the flow which creates my "tasks". However, I'm quite open to alternate approaches.
4. Assign LOE estimates and resources to tasks.
5. Generate documentation that can be imported into Excel that will show Scenario (Use Case) + All associated tasks with estimates and resource names assigned to them.

Part 2:

The ultimate goal is to create Team Foundation Work items of type Scenario for each use case and create work items of type Task that link back to the scenario work items. The Tasks should have the "Hours Remaining" field value imported from the LOE esimate in EA and the person assigned to the task should also be coming from EA (potentially).

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So I've been playing with the RTF document generator and the MDG link and I've not been able to achieve either goal so far. The first on is achievable by breaking UML standards (read HACK) which I do not like.

Does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations on how to achieve either approach? Example instructions would be nice.