Tool Vendor Challenge

Tool Vendor Challenge 19 September 2006 Jim Vita - Process and Deployment

Solution Approach Import Customer Problem Statement Review & Analyze Problem Statement Develop Exploratory Questions/ Placeholder Answers Generate Question/Answer Excel Live output Build System Spec Define Constraints Decompose Requirements Define Operational Context Link Requirements Define Interface Requirements Define Function Flow Define Views, Searches, Reports

Import Problem Statement Create Working Folder Structure Import Problem Statement into folder

Import Problem Statement Select Word Doc Select Req type to import and any special key Words to parse by Parsed Requirements

Import Problem Statement Requirements intact

Create Exploratory Questions and Placeholder Answers Create Question Notes Link to Answer Notes

Generate Questions/Answer Excel Live Output User Defined Live Excel Report Customer Enters Response

Define Constraints and link Answers to Constraint objects Answer Linked to Requirement waiting for customer input

Define Context Create Contextual Hierarchy Export Hierarchy to Visio

Define Context Connect up with interfaces

Develop Functional Flow Block Diagram Create Function Flow block diagrams or other diagram types the same way

Decompose Functions Further Lower level diagram can be crated from with in TcSE or from with in Visio.

TcSE Properties can be modified from within Visio

Link Requirements to Functions Start Link in TcSE End Link In VISIO TcSE Updates Live

Define Interface Requirements and Link to Functional Interfaces

Develop Interface Reporting

Define Views

Build System Specification

Output System Specification

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Tool Vendor Challenge