Effective Requirements Management For Your Projects

Blueprint provides efficient and effective management of requirements, people, and projects. Each and every requirement is versioned automatically by Blueprint and a complete history of changes is kept. Baselines of all or any subset of the requirements provide the foundation to reliably manage requirements changes. Traceability that’s fast to create, visible while working, and easy to analyze helps assess impact, confirm coverage, and manage scope. Flexible and powerful requirements reuse saves time and promotes consistency while modern administrative features and seamless integration with enterprise directories makes onboarding new users and maintaining projects simple.

Version Control

In Blueprint versions are automatically maintained for every requirements artifact (text requirements, business processes, use cases, user interface mockups, etc.). At any time users can access the entire version history for any requirement artifact and see an instant summary of version differences. Any prior requirements version can be opened to see how the artifact appeared at a historical point in time. Blueprint versioning is highly reliable and scalable, and provides the detailed information necessary to manage requirements on large projects.

Baselines

Blueprint baselines provide points of stability while requirements are changing. In Blueprint baselines may reflect significant milestones like a product release, the end of a development sprint, or perhaps something that’s meaningful only to a small group or an individual. They record the state of an entire project, or any subset of artifacts you choose. You can even go ‘back in time’ and create a baseline at some prior point in time. Blueprint baselines help keep changes manageable while you progress toward your goal.

Creating Traceability

Blueprint lets you create trace relationships between requirements artifacts quickly and easily. Drag and drop requirements while you work to quickly establish relationships between them. A dedicated dialog lets you add or remove many trace relationships at once for a specific requirement whether they’re in the same or different projects. Blueprint’s trace creation features provide the speed a flexibility to ensure trace relationships are easy to capture at time of requirement creation, before they’re lost.

Leveraging Traceability

In Blueprint icons indicate when an artifact has traces to provide context and keep these relationships top-of-mind. Trace relationships appear during simulations and in reviews leading to related requirements information. A Traceability Explorer with sophisticated filters lets users analyze trace relationships in depth. Finally, trace relationships can be output as navigable links in generated documents, are output along with requirements to Excel, and output along with requirements and tests to HP ALM. Blueprints powerful features for leveraging traceability allows users to easily assess coverage, change impact, and manage scope.

Reuse

Blueprint lets you reuse any requirements artifacts within and across projects. Reusable repositories of requirements artifacts can be created and both their usage and maintenance governed by Blueprint’s role-based access. Reusing requirements artifacts with Blueprint drives consistency across the requirements and efficiencies in their creation and maintenance.

Projects

Blueprint lets you organize your requirements by project, and supports cross-project features such as traceability, reuse, simulation, and more. Projects can be cloned to serve as templates allowing departments and enterprises to drive requirements consistency across their project portfolios. Projects can also be migrated from one Blueprint database to another quickly and easily. Blueprint Projects provide the power and flexibility to effectively organize and work with requirements across a team.

Security

Blueprint integrates with your enterprise directory (Active Directory / LDAP), or alternatively users can be defined locally in the Blueprint repository. Users and Groups can be defined and granted role-based access rights to entire projects, or to any portion right down to an individual requirement. Blueprint protects project information with a simple yet powerful approach to access control that allows ‘mixed’ teams of those with and without enterprise accounts to collaborate on projects.