Requirements Definition and Management (RDM)
Bring your Software Requirements to Life
Designed to ensure complete and accurate requirements, the Borland®RDM solution enables stakeholders to collaborate
effectively so that projects can be delivered on time, within budget, and with greater customer satisfaction. Interactive
simulations and visual scenarios can be captured and easily validated giving business and IT a common language for clear
direction. Simulations come to life with realistic data and embedded business logic, providing stakeholders a fast way of
seeing what they are really asking for and finding what may be missing before coding begins. This allows requirements to be
feedback-cycled quickly and truly validated, eliminating costly rework downstream. The simulations, scenarios, associated
resources, textual requirements and feedback can all be reviewed directly through a web browser.
Finally, the requirements generated from the Borland RDM solution can be managed and traced throughout the project lifecycle,
enabling software development teams to assess impact and respond rapidly to ever-changing requests without jeopardizing
project success. Borland offers two products that work together seamlessly in the RDM solution: Borland
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CaliberRM™.
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REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION
Borland TeamDefine is designed to help your teams bring their
software requirements to life ensuring that requirements are
defined completely and unambiguously. Business users and
analysts can now collaborate to assemble interactive simulations
and visual scenarios in a web-based client. TeamDefine caters
to four process areas of requirements definition:
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Elicitation – Provide business users and analysts with a simple
way to collaboratively create simulations that bring requirements
to life and inspire innovation. The result is better communication
and correct requirements from the start.
Analysis – Through simulation and scenario review users can
identify significant business value in the shortest time possible.
This task is simplified greatly by easy connectivity and
contextual feedback features in TeamDefine.
Specification – Iteratively and incrementally add detail to
screens, logic and data in simulations, connect existing resources
to visual scenarios and link everything to requirements. This
ensures that all stakeholders have the information they need to
understand quickly and effectively.
Validation – Business stakeholders can clearly envision the
system by reviewing simulations, scenarios and requirements
through interaction. All feedback is captured and time
stamped for the team to review, respond and validate. This
leads to accurate and complete requirements that truly
meet the business needs.
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
Designed for scalable requirements management and powerful
decision support, Borland CaliberRM helps teams deliver on
key project milestones with greater accuracy and predictability.
CaliberRM also helps applications meet end-user needs by
enabling all project stakeholders — marketing teams, analysts,
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developers, testers and managers — to collaborate and
communicate the voice of the customer throughout the
software delivery lifecycle. Some of the key features include:
Centralized repository – CaliberRM provides a
central, secure repository for all project requirements.
Adaptable to fit your process – CaliberRM is designed to
bring speed and agility to the requirements process.
Requirements traceability across the application lifecycle –
CaliberRM has an open architecture that permits requirements
to be linked to a variety of artifacts across the lifecycle.
Real time impact analysis – Multiple methods of traceability
visualization help users immediately understand the scope of
analysis required to gauge the effect of a requirements change.
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REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION
■ Engage end users with realistic simulations
■ Drag-n-drop assembly of screens, sample data
and business logic
■ Integrated feedback management for end users and
software developers
■ Author, review and provide feedback all from
“no weight” web client
■ Simple screen, logic, decision diagramming in simulations
■ One button feedback-to-requirement promotion cycle
■ Configurable “hot spots” allow easy introduction of existing
screens into simulations
■ Powerful form builder helps to create custom pages using
data and layout w/ controls
■ Import existing data from CSV or create custom tables
■ Interactive what you see is what you get layouts (w/grids)
■ Advanced requirements assignment to element
■ Visual scenario capture with actor flags
■ HTML override for advanced usage
■ Integrated “real time” requirements with CaliberRM (optional)
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
■ Extensive baselining support
■ Change tracking and notification
■ Real-time impact analysis
■ User defined attributes
■ Centralized repository (supports distributed access)
■ Advanced measurement and reporting
■ Traceability across the lifecycle
■ Visual scenario and requirements synchronization
■ Test case generation and tracing
■ Requirements based estimation
■ Borland StarTeam
■ Borland Together
■ Microsoft
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Visual Studio®Team System integration
Working together, TeamDefine and CaliberRM provide the
only solution that allows teams to seamlessly integrate their
requirements definition and management processes. Fluid
support between adjacent activities and no artificially abrupt
process/tooling gaps ensure the right requirements are elicited,
defined and then managed through the entirety of the
project lifecycle.
system requirements
Borland TeamDefine
Operating System
■ Supported platforms include Windows 2003 Server
and Red Hat®Enterprise Linux™2.0
Memory
■ 2 GB of memory is recommended (3 GB is
recommended if collocated with CaliberRM server)
Hard Disk Space:
■ 10 GB of disk space is recommended
Browsers
■ Internet Explorer
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6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet
Explorer 8, and Firefox®3
Port Requirements
Default installation assumes the availability of Port
8080. TeamDefine can be reconfigured to use a
different port if this creates a conflict.
Borland is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibility
to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process.
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Borland CaliberRM Windows®Client
and Web Client
Operating System
■ Windows 2003 (SP2, 32-bit version only), Windows
2000 Professional (SP4), Windows XP Professional
(SP2) workstation Windows Vista
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Browsers
■ Microsoft Internet Explorer6.0 or higher
Memory
■ 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
Borland CaliberRM Server
Operating System
■ Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (SP2)
Memory
■ 256 MB RAM (1GB recommended)
Note: CaliberRM Web Server only needs to meet
the recommended system requirements that Apache
or IIS requires.
Borland CaliberRM Components for Microsoft
Visual Studio Team System
Please refer to the Readme file in the Documentation
folder on the CaliberRM for Microsoft Visual Team
System disk for both client and server system
requirements.
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