In 2005 I gave this presentation at the IBM Rational User Conference with my Visa colleague, Larry Aiken. We created a custom framework to use Rational Requisite Pro to manage entire projects, not just requirements.

1. Managing Projects using IBM ® Rational ® RequisitePro ® Mike Levine, PMP Visa USA [email_address] Larry Aiken, PMP Visa USA [email_address]

8. A Good Requirements Management Plan Should Bridge the Gap Between Requirements and the Project Schedule By Addressing Project Risk and Establishing Scope in Each Iteration Requirements Management Plan Requirements Project Schedule Risks! Falling Back into Old Patterns Poor Communications Scheduling Scope Creep Scope

9. A Good Requirements Management Plan Centralizes and Binds Project Stakeholders to a Jointly Established, Common Focal Point Requirements Management Plan in RequisitePro Rose XDE RequisitePro builds this bridge! Test- Manager Testers Require-ments Customer Developers Rose XDE MS Project Project Manager

10. Key Concept: RequisitePro ‘Realizes’ the Requirements Management Plan in the Logical Structure of the RequisitePro Project Requirements Management Plan Artifacts Use Cases Business Rules Scenarios Supplementary Specs . . .

16. Release Traceability

18. Feature Traceability

20. Risk Traceability

22. Iteration Traceability

24. The Complete Project Management Toolset

25. Demo

32. Questions

33. Mike Levine mlevine@visa.com Larry Aiken [email_address] Thank You