Inception and Early Elaboration

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Step

Description

1

The business analyst uses Serena Service Manager to raise a new Business Change Request to modify an application.

2

The business case for the new version of the application is reviewed and approved by all the relevant stakeholders, for example, the Executive team.

3

The project manager uses Serena Requirements Manager to create a new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) project and transitions it to the Inception state.

4

To address the Business Change Request in a specific project, the project manager uses Requirements Manager to associate the Business Change Request with the ALM project.

5

The project management team reviews the Business Change Request and approves the project.

6

The project manager uses Requirements Manager to transition the project to its next state, Elaboration.

7

To deliver the changes in a specific quarter, the release manager uses Serena Release Manager to create an application release in the appropriate quarterly release train, and associates the Business Change Request with the application release.

8

The business analyst creates a new collection of requirements for the release using the Dimensions RM.

9

The business analyst the breaks down the Business Change Requests into various classes of functional requirements.

10

The business analyst raises a requirements approval request, which in turn creates a snapshot of the requirements collection.

11

The reviewers of the functional requirements receive notification from Requirements Manager and open a web link to a snapshot in Requirements Manager. They make review comments against the snapshot and the requirements, and approve or reject the Requirements Approval ticket.