Solution Description

• Combine with RELM capabilities for Finding Information to quickly define products, components, capabilities, systems, and sub-systems
• Easily discover the set of lifecycle artifacts that define a product or system
• Easily discover which products and systems use a given lifecycle artifact
• Associate product definition to workflow and state

Symptoms

The following symptoms indicate a need for improvement in finding relevant information:

• No central mechanism available to define products or systems
• No central mechanism available to specify lifecycle artifacts to be reused
• Forced to use ad-hoc solutions in existing tooling to represent product definition (e.g. DOORS formal module structure, Rhapsody SysML models) which are not visible from other tools
• No means to easily discover which lifecycle artifacts define a product or system
• No means to easily discover which products or systems use a lifecycle artifact
• No central mechanism to tie product definition to product workflow activities

Tools

• IBM® Rational® Engineering Lifecycle Management

With support from:

• IBM® Rational® Team Concert®
• IBM® Rational® DOORS
• IBM® Rational® Rhapsody
• IBM® Rational® Quality Manager®  

Solution Benefits by business objective     

• The primary focus is to reduce Engineering cost by:
  • Shorten time required from product concept to completed product definition
  • Reduce time and effort required to react to change with immediate understanding of impacted products and systems
  • Efficiency and quality gains through increased re-use of proven assets