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THE BLUEPRINT REQUIREMENTS SOLUTION
June 2016

q Executive Overview
q Requirements Management in Blueprint
q Management of and auto generation of Test Cases in Blueprint
q Manage Other Models and artifact creation in Blueprint
q Management of Relationships with Blueprint Traceability
q Management of Project Documentation in Blueprint
q Model Management including enterprise level artifact reuse in Blueprint
q Reporting and Analytics in Blueprint
q Blueprint bi-directional Synchronisation with JIRA
TABLE OF CONTENTS

BA’s would like to move away from MS office tools for review and approval to a more holistic solution with integration to JIRA and confluence as well as testing tools like Zephyr. In
particular we'll address the following key areas with Blueprint :
• Seek ways and tools that facilitate rapid business and solution modelling
• Improve collaboration and communication with peers in disparate locations
• Re-use knowledge, objects and patterns and stop projects from starting at ground zero
• Tailor communication to the audiences needs
• Focus on delivering value rather than being document administrators
• Integrate with artefacts owned by other teams to improve SDLC information continuity
Blueprint’s Enterprise Requirements Definition & Management solution will help get complex software and IT project requirements right -from the start. The key benefits are:
• Increased standardization, consistency and reuse
• Reduced time and effort on IT projects
• Reduced enterprise compliance risk
• Improved decision making
Blueprint provides a software solution that helps build better business applications. It is designed for large organizations with global teams, provides a rich feature set to manage
requirements, and deliver successfulIT projects. Blueprint helps to:
• Fast-track a transition to Agile;
• Ensure regulatory compliance;
• Align business strategy with IT execution
Blueprint is flexible and can be used to support any combination of software development methodologies across the organization. Projects using an Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, Iterative or
Bi-Modal approach will benefit from using Blueprint.
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

BLUEPRINT RDM PLATFORM STANDARDIZES REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
Requirement
Visualization
Bring requirements
to life through
visualization and
simulation
techniques
Requirements
Elicitation
Quickly elicit&
reuse
requirements,
baseline,as well as
track and manage
change
Stakeholder
Collaboration
Social collaboration
ensures that all
communications are
centrally located and
preserved for
reference
Traceability
Baseline
Requirements
Track and manage
change
Reporting &
Analytics
Provides visibility
across the project
portfolio providing
transparency in into
projectexecution as
well as cross project
trends and patterns

BLUEPRINT RDM PLATFORM DOES SO MUCH MORE THAN MANAGE REQUIREMENTS
Diagramming
Talk process
modeling and other
diagramming such
as context
diagrams,other
level models
including process
control
MasterAsset
Repository
Centralized
database driven
repository that can
be established using
BlueDocs to convert
legacy
documentation into
reusable assets
Auto-generate
Test Scripts
Automatic
generation oftest
scenarios from
requirements to
facilitate highly
efficienttesting
Integrate with
otherALM
Products
Baseline
Requirements
Track and manage
change
Generate
Outputs in
Office Format
Provides visibility
across the project
portfolio providing
transparency in
cross project
trends and
patterns
• Quickly elicit and capture requirements
• Efficiently manage requirements change
• Confidently review and approve requirements
• Clearly see requirements status and track progress
• Seamlessly exchange requirements with SDLC toolsets

Benefits
§ Speed up projects by auto-generating a complete set of high quality, well-formatted and consistent User Stories,
Acceptance Criteria and Tests
§ Improves Business to IT Alignment through visualization and traceability
§ Usable by a broad range of users of any skill level, enhancing enterprise collaboration and communication
§ Automatic Document Generation allows the team to focus on delivering great business applications
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT – ELICITATION USING STORYTELLER

Benefits
§ User Stories generated in consistent format for everyone using the structure:
§ Acceptance criteria auto generated based on the ‘given’and ‘then’ tasks
§ Ability to see mock-ups of the screens before and after.
STORYTELLER – AUTO GENERATED USER STORIES & ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

Benefits
§ Dependencies and supporting information can also be attached to user stories.
§ Business rules are accessed from Blueprints common library so that they can be reused. Centralization to help teams
reference existing standards to accelerate and standardize the elaboration of Acceptance Criteria
STORYTELLER – DEPENDENCIES AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION

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Features Move From / To
q Supports development of custom requirement types
and/or custom properties
q Supports a traditional textual context or in a variety of
visual manners, templates and rules
q Provides requirement baselining at project level or
any sub-set of a project
q Complete version history is maintained Select
portions of a requirement can be set to “read only” so
only authorized persons can change them
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT - ELICITATION
Benefits
§ Reduce errors and gaps by 60-70% by
tracing requirements and graphical
process models to auto-test case
generation machine
§ Collaborative reviews on requirements
are be built in and can be configured for
the audience
§ Achieve qualitative analysis by involving
“Testing” stakeholders
§ Leverage requirements content to
generate “Test Cases” vs. building them
manually q Move from using the wrong tools (MS Office) for
documenting and managing requirements to a
feature rich requirements definition and management
platform
q Move from minimal visibility of requirement and
scope changes to full transparency into change
history
q Move from minimal root cause analysis to consistent
localized root cause analysis of all defects? – how do
you tie defects to requirements and capture root
cause?
Text Requirements Business Process Domain Diagrams Glossaries
Generic Diagrams UI Mockups Storyboards Documents
Use Cases
Use Case Diagrams

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q Use cases are used to simulate screen flow
q Brings Use Cases, Screen Mock-Ups and
Collaboration to drive reviews and action items
q Leverage work from UI teams or build them within
core product
q Able to drill into all items that are traced to the
Visualization engine.
q Show your business owner the visual and drill as
deep as you want
q Can be part of the approval cycles
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT - VISUALIZATION
Benefits
§ Utilize visualization as a method to
provide requirement clarity and obtain
stakeholder approval during define
phase – currently done in design OR
later where it is more costly to fix
§ Visual “Modeling” forces capability
managers to think more analytically
uncovering costly errors that are too
costly to fix later in development cycle
§ Engage Testing and Development as
needed to drive an understanding
§ Provides context and clarity to
requirements thereby mitigating the
chance of errors
q Move away from disjointed review processes
q Move away from old and lengthy Word documents
that Business Owners are too busy to read.
q Move to meaningful reviews that are conducted at
the level of detail and minimize rework.
UI MockupsUse Cases

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q Provides a simplified, web-based UI for Reviewers
q Send emails to anyone involved in the project
q Requirement link is embedded in email
q Approval, approval conditions and approval status
are electronically captured
q Users can “subscribe” to a one or more requirements
and follow all conversations and changes
q Can search and view requirement by multiple
dimensions (Release,service,,process,priority,actor)
q Role based access with user groups plus viewing,
editing and commenting rights
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT - STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION
Benefits
§ Tool provides platform to drive
collaboration between BA teams and
Testing
§ Content is more easily shared driving
detailed levels of collaboration
§ Provides context and clarity to
chance of errors
q Move from disconnected email based communication
method to an integrated collaborative method of
communication
q Don’t have to wait for the final BRD approval
q No longer wait for large documents to be reviewed
by each stakeholder.
q Capture all decisions along the way through
integrated collaboration
q Gain insight into past decisions with automatic
history and audit trail.
Email Notifications and Non-
Blueprint User/Email reply

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REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT - STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION (CONT.)
Benefits
§Tool provides platform to drive
collaboration between BA teams and
Testing
§Content is more easily shared driving
detailed levels of collaboration
§Approvals can be validated and audited –
line item or overall
§Provides context and clarity to
chance of errors

STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION (CONT.) - RAPID REVIEW
Benefits
§ Quick review and comment capability for any releases made to a feature, component or project
§ The review package includes textual and graphical artifacts including traces, properties, comments, etc.
§ Any artifact can be commented upon in the rapid review screen, which allows for easy collaboration.
§ Feedback provided via rapid review is available to the BA or other stakeholders within Blueprint.

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q User controls test case generation scope
q Each test case is accompanied with an expected
outcome for every tester output
q Blueprint ensures 100% coverage of all usage scenarios,
use cases and/or requirements info
q Automatically generated test cases can be exported in
multiple, commonly used formats
q Graphical artifacts are attached to test cases as images
MANAGEMENT OF AND AUTO GENERATION OF TEST CASES IN BLUEPRINT
Benefits
§ Test cases can be generated as soon as
a requirement is documented providing
visibility into test effort in the define
phase
§ Automated test case generation
minimizes the testing cycle time
§ Automated test case generation
significantly reduces manual work effort
related to development and maintenance
of test cases
§ Programmatic generation of test cases
produces greater test coverage without
impacting resourcing needs
§ Automated model driven testing solution
drives efficiency, reduces errors and
minimizes delays common with manual
processes
§ Automatic test case generation based
entirely on requirements tightly couples
testing coverage with desired business
outcomes
q Move from manual test case creation and
maintenance to automated generation based
requirement use cases
q Move from no test case reusability to full reusability
q Move from tests creation based on individual skill set
and susceptible to gaps to full coverage
q Move from Inconsistent standards to consistent
standards based test cases
Combined Flow Diagram
Main path, alternate paths, etc.
Complete Set of End-to-End Tests
Automatic
Generation

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Benefits
§Repository of Requirements at multiple
levels:
§Enterprise view
§Sub component view
§Robust asset repository that can be
leveraged to identify asset reuse
opportunities as early as the capability
planning phase, which could influence
the requested investment
§Easy creation of new artifacts whether it
be waterfall or agile artifacts or even
Foxtel specific
MANAGE OTHER MODELS AND ARTIFACT CREATION IN BLUEPRINT

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q Supports 100% BPMN compliance
q Provides domain diagrams to support conceptual
data modeling
q Provides generic diagramming to support process
hierarchies and context models
q Each component has own set of properties
• Trace
• Collaboration
• UI Mockups
• Attachments
MANAGE OTHER MODELS AND ARTIFACT CREATION IN BLUEPRINT PROCESS
Benefits
§ Cross-functional teams, including
“Testing”, can drill into process models
and see corresponding traces to test
cases and validate accuracy
§ Hierarchy of process models and other
visualization editors allow for single tool
for collaboration
§ Tracing the “Models” from requirements
to process models to use cases provided
more complete understanding of what
should be tested
q Move away from documenting process as a way to
articulate what has been developed to a process
driven methodology where process understanding is
gained upfront and used to drive the requirements
elicitation process
q Move from process models being scattered across
the organization to central repository for all process
models with alignment to RBT

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q Traceability Explorer with drag and drop interface
q Deep Sub-artifact trace – for example, trace to a
specific box in a diagram.
q Sophisticated filters to analyze trace relationships in
great detail
q Icons are used to indicate if an artifact has traces
q Trace relationships can be output as navigable links
in generated documents or sent via OpsHub to
integrated ALM products
q Trace relationships appear during simulations and in
reviews, which leads to related requirements
information and enhanced visibility
MANAGEMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS WITH BLUEPRINT TRACEABILITY
Benefits
§ Hierarchy of artifacts inclusive of
process models, use cases and
supporting requirements store the
“Models” for earlier testing and future
reuse
§ Detailed sub-artifact level trace allows
specific understanding of coverage and
gaps, identifying problem areas sooner
§ Once trace relationships are
established, trace matrices can be
automatically generated
§ Complete coverage from process model
step to test script
q Move from manual creation of trace matrix to
systemically enabled traceability
q Move from highly suspect, incomplete and often
unused traceability to complete, reliable traceability
enabling effective impact assessment, coverage
confirmation and scope management
q Move from limited trace coverage (Requirements to
test script) to trace coverage of the entire process
driven methodology (Process model step to
requirement to rule to test script)
Compliance, Trace and Reports
Trace & ReportTracing Process Models to Supporting
Requirements

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MANAGEMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS WITH BLUEPRINT TRACEABILITY (CONT.)
Benefits
§Detailed sub-artifact level trace allows
specific understanding of coverage and
gaps, identifying problem areas sooner
§Hierarchy of artifacts inclusive of process
models, use cases and supporting
requirements store the “Models” for earlier
testing and future reuse
§Once trace relationships are established,
trace matrices can be automatically
generated
§Ensure complete coverage from process
model step to test script

GRAPHICAL IMPACT ANALYSIS AND TRACEABILITY
Benefits
§ Visualisation of relationships from a task to other information in Blueprint
§ Detailed traceability ensures proper impact analysis and enables understanding of how functionality aligns with business needs.
§ Export capability for the Impact analysis report to MS office
§ Drill down capability in a single view to determine possible levels of impact. It is also possible to view Cross Project impact
§ Additional information can be viewed on any object in the tree including:
§ The description of the Unique ID business rule.
§ Answers provided during the elicitation process ensuring a complete historical record and references to documented
global standards.

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q Minimize change impact using current formats
q Fast generation of “key” organizational BRD’s and
FSD’S
q Continuous versioning (“always get latest version”)
through database driven requirements repository
q Template for consistency across teams and projects
q Can be maintained in library as attachments
q Parallel work streams with multiple stakeholders
working same document
MANAGEMENT OF PROJECT DOCUMENTATION IN BLUEPRINT
Benefits
§ Documents are always up-to-date and
accurate for more impactful review
cycles
§ Easier to implement reviews with
improved document generation
q Move away from Inconsistent content and move to
delivering the ‘full’ and correct content
q Avoid costly document management time trying to
assemble latest versions to auto publishing of the
correct version
q Reduce errors with more and easier utilization of
“single version of the truth”
q Document generation at the push of a button vs. long
winded emails and SharePoint
Step#1 Select MS office export
Step#2 Save File

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q Single unified System of Record (SOR) for
Requirements, Use Cases, Process Models, etc.
q Automated repository development by systemically
importing and converting MS Office documents using
BlueDocs (Word, Excel and Visio)
q Push Assets to project teams, allow search and
reuse
q Manage and enforce rules for changes – allows for
Branching and Merging
q Maintain a baseline of application requirements to
accelerate upgrade cycles
MODEL MANAGEMENT INCLUDING ENTERPRISE LEVEL ARTIFACT REUSE IN BLUEPRINT
Benefits
§ Robust asset repository that can be
leveraged to identify asset reuse
opportunities as early as the capability
planning phase, which could influence
the requested investment
§ Reuse with approvals and testing
execution on existing Certified Assets –
while improving quality
§ Automated conversion of MS Office
documents using BlueDocs to provide a
robust asset repository removing
overhead to manually create assets
§ Robust asset repository increases reuse
opportunities thereby reducing work
effort across the SDLC
§ All relevant project information centrally
accessible, controlled, and traceable
from capability planning through test
execution
q Move from decentralized and distributed artifact
storage to single database supporting concurrent,
multi-user access to artifacts
q Move from minimal asset reuse consideration to
early and consistent reusable asset consideration in
the strategic planning and estimating processes
q Move from minimal asset reuse to standard and
consistent asset reuse during project execution
q Move from documents buried on desktops to a
central repository
See Product Documentation slide in Appendix for additional information: Brochure– BlueDocs
Efficiency ♦ Speed ♦ Consistency ♦ Alignment
Facilitate Asset Sharing and Tracking
• Centralizedrepository for all Artifacts
• Certify standard common artifacts
• Cross-Project Reuse
Projects

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q Leverage existing BI infrastructure
q Powerful dashboards to look into the portfolio
q Create status reports to show performance at any
given point in time from a portfolio, project, or
requirement/test point of view
q Create trend reports to indicate how things are
progressing over a period of time
q Predictive indicators based on previous data
q Create insight reports that show why things are
happening and what is influencing performance
REPORTING AND ANALYTICS IN BLUEPRINT REPORTING
Benefits
§ Visibility into early stages of a project
where previously there was none
§ Early detection of negative trends such
as “not enough traces, visual modeling
artifacts or even uncovering lack of
reviews”
§ Eliminate manual collection of
requirement execution statistics
§ Consistent measurements enable
effective evaluation leading to fact based
course correction and/or process
improvement opportunities
§ Database driven platform aggregates
data with correlation to capability,
portfolio and programs
q Move from no data aggregation to database driven
platform enabling execution transparency at the
capability, portfolio and project levels
q Move from no visibility to clear visibility Move from
inconsistent measurements at best to standard
measurement across the portfolio
q Move from no metrics/KPI to reporting that enables
trend analysis and predictive indicators
q Move from inconsistent accountability to full
accountability for design alignment to capability
planning and technology strategies
Sample BI Products
that work with
Blueprint Analytics:
• IBM Cognos
• SAP Business
Objects
• Oracle Hyperion
• Qlikview
• Tableau
• Microstrategy
• Oracle Essbase
• IBM TM1
• Microsoft
PowerPivot.
See Product Documentation slide in Appendix for additional information: Brochure– Blueprint Analytics
Management Reporting and Analytics
- Status Reports
§ Number of projects, artifacts etc.
§ Approval status across projects
§ Use Case Changes
§ Overdue Approvals
- Trend Reports
§ Analyze changes over time
§ Compare baselines
§ Usage trends on use cases and artifacts
- Insight
§ Impending Project Delay Alerts
§ Missed Requirements Analysis

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q Automatic data synchronization on a timed basis
q Standardize with Integration Templates
q Field-level mapping with high configurability
q Allows teams to stay in their core tool and deliver
content needed for the enterprise
BLUEPRINT BI-DIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONISATION WITH JIRA
Benefits
§ Teams can stay in their core tools – JIRA
teams have access to key data within
Blueprint
§ Integration eliminates the need to
manually move data between ALM
products
§ The integration options provided by
Blueprint systemically connect the ALM
products used across the SDLC
q Move to standardized elicitation practice from which
data can be transformed and delivered in the format
needed
q Move from manual data movement to fully integrated
Application Lifecycle Management eco-system
q Move from manual creation of requirements and
process model deliverables to template based auto-
generated deliverables
q Move to tools with bi-directional synchronization
q Move from manual change environment to near-time
change notification
Reqs
Context
Req -
Story
Req -
Story
Spec/
Detail
Delivery
Task
Req -
Story
Function
Test
Requirements
& Specification
Delivery
Management
Test
Management
UI

Artifacts are replicated in JIRA
NOTE: JIRA’s look & feel may vary due to the version
Attachments in Blueprint are synchronized with JIRA

Ø Comments made in Blueprint or in JIRA are replicated between the solutions.

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