Archive for February, 2008

Customised lifecycle support

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Example lifecycle

e-LM allows you to create customised lifecycles (or workflows) for different assets in the system. These lifecycles define the states (or phases) that an asset must go through.

In addition to the existing support you can now define custom lifecycles for features, risks, issues, change requests, attachments and actions.

The image on the right shows an example lifecycle, in this case for managing attachments. Each box represents a state that the attachment can be in and the arrows indicate the transitions between the states. The red arrows show transitions that require specific authorisation.

 

 

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Risk management enhancements

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

In the risk management module you now have the ability to capture the post-mitigation probability and impact on a risk. e-LM uses these values to then calculate the post-mitigation risk and also tracks changes to the post-mitigation risk.

 

We’ve also added two new report templates. The first is a summary report of all the risks across a project, a programme or across the whole organisation. The second is a detailed risk report, including the status of actions on the risk as well as any comments added to the risk.

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Product feature management

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

We’ve added a whole new module to e-LM that allows you to manage features on a product.

For each feature you can capture a reference, short description, estimated effort, estimated cost and priority. You can also allocate the feature to an owner, attach any type of document to a feature for example MS Word or Excel and allow users to add feedback comments to the feature.

Features can be allocated to particular releases of the product. You can also move features to another release, for example if the feature does not fit into the budget for that particular release.

If you link a particular release to a project then you can link the features in that release to requirements in the project. You can also create new requirements directly from features. On the project side the features will be included in the traceability matrix.

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