Focal Point Doors Integration

Connecting the Product Development Process – Focal Point & DOORS

Top reasons why products fail Source: Aberdeen Group , August 2006

How many of you would NOT like to see your requirements like this? You may have to make crucial decisions based on something like this...

Focal Point enables you to

Plan the right product with the right features to be developed at the right time and the right cost

Optimize the revenue, value to the customer and cost of development

Trade-off between conflicting objectives such as meeting as many requirements as possible, implementing everything by tomorrow and at no cost. What trade-off is the best for all stakeholders?

Do the right things in the right order

Enabling collaboration between Focal Point users and DOORS users Requirements Management in DOORS DOORS project DOORS project DOORS project Decision support in Focal Point Collect Analyze Plan Product management in Focal Point Manage Prioritize Monitor

How does Focal Point support Product Management?

Key PM activities

Collect

Manage

Analyze

Prioritize

Plan

Monitor

Key PM activities

Collect

Manage

Analyze

Prioritize

Plan

Monitor

Key PM activities

Collect

Manage

Analyze

Prioritize

Plan

Monitor

Key PM activities

Collect

Manage

Analyze

Prioritize

Plan

Monitor

Key PM activities

Collect

Manage

Analyze

Prioritize

Plan

Monitor

Key PM activities

Collect

Manage

Analyze

Prioritize

Plan

Monitor

Requirements flow from Focal Point to DOORS – the hourglass model Product Management feeds Requirements Management Focal Point DOORS Collect, Analyze from a business perspective, Prioritize, Plan Analyze from a technical perspective, Decompose and allocate, Formalize, Trace Verify Less formal information “ WHAT-oriented” - Decide Helps earn money Formalized information “ HOW-oriented” - Execute Helps save money

Scenario 1: Requirements flow from Focal Point to DOORS

Development starts

Progress is reported via implementation status attribute

Progress is monitored via implementation status attribute

The estimate is used with prioritizations to plan release content.

Status indicates when ready to implement

Analyzes and estimates the cost.

Enters a cost value in the DOORS attribute.

Sets status to ”Analyzed”

Collects requirements from customers.

Validates and requests cost estimation.

Requirements appear in a ”DOORS view” and gets synchronized to a DOORS module

Engineering Business

Enabling collaboration between Focal Point users and DOORS users Requirements Management in DOORS DOORS project DOORS project DOORS project Decision support in Focal Point Collect Analyze Plan Product management in Focal Point Manage Prioritize Monitor

Prioritization of requirements in DOORS

Do you have more requirements than time and resources to implement?

Do you need to optimize stakeholder value while reducing cost of development?

Focal Point has unique mechanisms for prioritizing the requirements and visualize the results in a number of charts

Leverage your investment in DOORS with the unique decision support features of Focal Point

Scenario 2: Prioritization of requirements

The ranking attribute(s) appear on the DOORS side and can be used for filtering, sorting etc.

Log in and prioritize the elements

Select ”Rank the elements” to store priority rank in an attribute.

Select requirements that shall be prioritized

Set ”To be prioritized” to True

In Focal Point In DOORS

How does it work?

Based on the new Telelogic Synchronization Framework

Reads XML configuration files

What views should be synchronized?

What attributes?

Sync direction?

Sync frequency?

Last sync performed?

How to deal with deletion?

Performs sync in background

Synchronization Framework XML Focal Point Web Services DOORS DXL

The Combined Solution of Focal Point and DOORS

Focal Point is for doing the right things , DOORS is for doing things right

Together, Focal Point and DOORS provide the ultimate solution for requirements management taking care of both business and engineering perspectives

Focal Point helps you make money , DOORS helps you save money

Telelogic uniquely supports a focus on requirements throughout the product development process

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