The document discusses Serena Dimensions RM, a requirements management solution that offers end-to-end traceability, rapid requirements coordination, and integration capabilities with various tools. It highlights features such as requirements reuse, lifecycle management, and reporting, while showcasing the product’s benefits for effective project oversight and stakeholder collaboration. Additionally, the document promotes upcoming events and new agile capabilities planned for future releases.

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Copyright © Serena Software 2015
Integrated Requirements Management with
Serena Dimensions RM
Achieving End2End Traceability
Kay Fuhrmann
Product Manager Dimensions RM
kfuhrmann@serena.com
Ashley Owen
Director Product Marketing
aowen@serena.com

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Process enforcement, orchestration and visibility
Serena Business Manager (SBM)
Serena Request Center (SRC)
Deployment and configuration automation
Serena Deployment Automation (SDA)
Application
Development
Dimensions RM (RM)
Dimensions CM (CM)
PVCS/Version Manager
Quality and
Release
Management
Serena Release Control
(RLC)
IT Operations &
Change
Management
Serena Service
Manager (SSM)
Serena Solution Portfolio
Develop with Velocity
Deploy with Certainty
Release with Confidence

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Service Manager
#1 Requirement Management solution in the world is … MS Excel!
Introducing Serena Dimensions RM
Dimensions CM
ChangeMan ZMF
Dimensions RM
Requirements Reuse
Supports complex reuse scenarios and helps identify and
reuse already defined requirements sets, simplifying variant
management and inheritance.
Rapid Requirements Coordination
Coordinate the definition, management and approval of
requirements across all stakeholders and manage change
across tools, teams and releases.
Requirements Insight
Provides insight into the visibility and progress of requirements
through the application development lifecycle, regardless of
development methodologies.
Requirements Traceability
Through managing requirement relationships, requirements
change and requirement dependencies, powerful traceability
matrix reports can be readily generated.

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capture requirements to choosing the best requirements management solution.

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• Web-based Comprehensive
Requirements Management
• Requirements Lifecycle Workflow
• Quick Search and comprehensive
requirements reporting
• Unified Change Process
• Rapid Coordination
• Document generation & comparison
• Easy approval for requirements and
documents
• Traceability Across Lifecycle & Tools
• Integrations to Models, Test etc.
Dimensions RM for Integrated Requirements Management Today
Serena Dimensions RM Core Features
Define & visualize Requests
Full RM Browser Capabilities
Requirements Traceability

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End2End Traceability
ProductDefects/Change
Requests
Requirements
Tasks & Code
Tests

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Change Request Portal

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Business Requirements Analysis
Create/adapt Business Requirements during change analysis and link to CR
Create New & Link
+ propagate attributesLink existing
Requirement

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Requirements Breakdown / Impact Analysis
Suspect Link to
identify potential
change impact
Traceability Reports

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Requirements Management Features
RM Class Definition
• Free definable artifact
types with their attributes
• Access rights on attribute
level
• Link relations definition
• Link constraints
• Requirements Lifecycle
Workflow

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RM Link Visualizations: Link Browser & Split View
Link Browser
• Dynamic graphical view of relationships
• Definable number of levels for traceability
• Direct editing of requirements and links
• Free definable scope
Split View
• Fast change of multiple links
• Drag and drop linking
• Simplified filtering
• Increased visibility of relationships

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Collection: Release1.0
Development Task Definition
• Browse collections in Dimensions
Catalog
• Select Requirement(s) from desired
collection
• Create Dev Task (automatically linked to
requirement)
Stream/Proj: Release1.0
DevTask 17
DevTask 18
SW Reqmt 3
SW Reqmt 5
SW Reqmt 9
Dimensions RM Dimensions CM

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End2End Traceability Views
Change
Requests
Business
Requirements
Software
Requirements
Development
Tasks

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Test Definition, Planning & Execution
Test Plan

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Test Traceability
SW Requirement
Test Case
Test Run
Defect

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Serena Dim RM – HP Quality Center Integration
HP
Quality Center
Serena
Dimensions RM
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Requirements
Test Plan (Tests  Test Steps)
Test Sets (Test Runs)
Defects
Business Requirements
Software Requirements
Mapping
(XML Configuration)
Use Cases
Defects
Attributes:
Title
Description
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Attributes:
Title
Description
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Linking objects from RM to QC and manage their synchronization
Test Cases

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End2End Traceability
RM Model Integration: Enterprise Architect and Matlab Simulink
WHAT
• Traceability integration to models
• Link Model Artifacts to Reqs and v.v.
• Navigate between Reqs and Models
• Include models into Req documents
WHY
• End2End Traceability View
• Derivation of requirements
• Derivation of models
• Complete Specification
Models
Requirements

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Serena Integrations
• SBM (10.1.3.1 to 10.1.5.2)
– Rest/Web Services
– RM Integration Engine
• Dimensions CM (12.2 to 14.2)
• Prototype Composer (3.2.1 to 3.3)
• ChangeMan ZMF (via SBM)
• SLM (2.2)
Serena Dimensions RM 12.3 - Integrations Overview
3rd Party Integrations
• HP QC/ALM (11, 11.5, 12)
• DOORS (9.5 and up – ReqIF)
• MS Office (2007 and up)
• Matlab Simulink (12b and up)
• Enterprise Architect (12)
• Synchronization Engine (Tasktop) for
TFS, Jira and over 25 other ITSM/ALM/PPM tools
Import Formats
• DOC, DOCX, CSV, XLS, XLSX, XML, ReqIF
Export Formats
• DOCX, PDF, XLSX, HTML, XML
RM API:
• Comprehensive
Web/Rest Services
to access data and
functions

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Integrated Dimensions RM Demo

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End2End Traceability
ProductDefects/Change
Requests
Requirements
Tasks & Code
Tests

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Thank you
www.serena.com

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Join us for our upcoming events!
Join this live webcast to find out
how you can integrate
agile and traditional approaches
within the same organization or
even the same project!
Agile Requirements Management
Safe the date just now!
Date: Wednesday, March 30th
Time: 4 pm BST │ 5 pm CET
11 am EST │ 8 am PST
www.serena.com/index.php/en/company/upcoming-events/

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Agile Capabilities coming in RM 12.4

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• Agile artefacts and agile views
• Agile artefacts based on RM classes (flexible attributes, hierarchy)
• Backlogs and Story Boards
• Product/Release/Sprint breakdown
• Calculations and visualizations on priority, effort, progress
• Support of hybrid approaches
• Requirements and agile artefacts
• Traceability throughout all artefact types
• Non-functional requirements
• Re-use of backlog and story boards for traditional artefacts
• Integration into development
• Story to be provided to (agile) development tool
• Feedback on development progress back to RM boards
Agile Capabilities in Dimensions RM

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RM 12.4 - Agile Views
Product Backlog Product Storyboard
Sprint Planning Sprint Storyboard

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End2End Traceability Views - Agile
Change
Requests Business
Requirements
Features
User
Stories

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Dimensions RM – Further Interfaces

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Dimensions RM Tasktop Adapter enables more Integrations
Tasktop Sync 4.0 supports Dimensions RM to be integrated with
• Microsoft TFS
• JIRA
• IBM RTC
• IBM ClearQuest
• BMC Remedy
• Bugzilla
• Tricentis Tosca
• Rally
• CA PPM
and many more
See: http://www.tasktop.com/connectors/serena-sdrm/sync

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TFS Integration via Tasktop