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Connecting the Product DevelopmentProcess – Focal Point & DOORS

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Top reasons why products fail

42%

37%

27%

26%

24%

24%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Unclear or continually changing productdefinitions

Product does not meet customer or marketrequirements

Unrealistic schedule expectations

Projects not adequately staffed

Unclear or continually changing priorities

Unrealistic financial expectations

Source: AberdeenGroup, August 2006


How many of you would NOT like to see your requirements like this?You may have to make crucial decisions based on something like this...


Focal Point enables you to

Plan the right product with the right features to be developed at the right time and the right cost

Optimize the revenue, value to the customer and cost of development

Trade-off between conflicting objectives such as meeting as many requirements as possible, implementing everything by tomorrow and at no cost. What trade-off is the best for all stakeholders?

Do the right things in the right order


Enabling collaboration between Focal Point users and DOORS users

Decision supportin Focal Point

RequirementsManagement in

DOORS

DOORS project

DOORS project

DOORS project

Collect

Analyze

Plan

Product managementin Focal Point

Manage Prioritize

Monitor


How does Focal Point support Product Management?

Key PM activities

1. Collect

2. Manage

3. Analyze

4. Prioritize

5. Plan

6. Monitor


Requirements flow from Focal Point to DOORS – the hourglass model

Collect,Analyze from a

business perspective,Prioritize,

Plan

Analyze from a technical perspective,

Decompose and allocate,Formalize,

TraceVerify

Less formal information“WHAT-oriented” - DecideHelps earn money

Formalized information“HOW-oriented” - ExecuteHelps save money

Product Management feeds Requirements Management

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Scenario 1: Requirements flow from Focal Point to DOORS

Business Engineering

Collects requirements from customers.

Validates and requests cost estimation.

Requirements appear in a ”DOORS view” and gets synchronized to a DOORS module

Analyzes and estimates the cost.

Enters a cost value in the DOORS attribute.

Sets status to ”Analyzed”

The estimate is used with prioritizations to plan release content.

Status indicates when ready to implement

Progress is monitored via implementation status attribute

Development starts

Progress is reported via implementation status attribute


Enabling collaboration between Focal Point users and DOORS users

Decision supportin Focal Point

RequirementsManagement in

DOORS

DOORS project

DOORS project

DOORS project

Collect

Analyze

Plan

Product managementin Focal Point

Manage Prioritize

Monitor


Prioritization of requirements in DOORS

Do you have more requirements than time and resources to implement?

Do you need to optimize stakeholder value while reducing cost of development?

Focal Point has unique mechanisms for prioritizing the requirements and visualize the results in a number of charts

Leverage your investment in DOORS with the unique decision support features of Focal Point


Scenario 2: Prioritization of requirements

In DOORS In Focal Point

Select requirements that shall be prioritized

Set ”To be prioritized” to True

Log in and prioritize the elements

Select ”Rank the elements” to store priority rank in an attribute.

The ranking attribute(s) appear on the DOORS side and can be used for filtering, sorting etc.


How does it work?

Based on the new Telelogic Synchronization Framework

Reads XML configuration files What views should be synchronized?

What attributes?

Sync direction?

Sync frequency?

Last sync performed?

How to deal with deletion?

Performs sync in background

Synchronization Framework

Synchronization Framework

XML

XML

Focal PointFocal Point

Web ServicesWeb Services

DOORSDOORS

DXLDXL


The Combined Solution of Focal Point and DOORS

Focal Point is for doing the right things, DOORS is for doing things right

Together, Focal Point and DOORS provide the ultimate solution for requirements management taking care of both business and engineering perspectives

Focal Point helps you make money, DOORS helps you save money

Telelogic uniquely supports a focus on requirements throughout the product development process


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