Monthly Archives: January 2007

Cross Project Linking

January 31, 2007 – 11:50 am

Contour’s cross project linking allows a project to reference a requirement in a separate project.
Several clients had requested the ability to link requirements (or any items for that matter) across different projects. During analysis we realized that there were several possible implementations.
One option was to completely link an item from one project into another, such [...]

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Impact Analysis

January 29, 2007 – 8:42 pm

With the release of Contour 1.3 users are able to see immediately the project artifacts – and team members working on those items that may be affected. This is one of the primary benefits or implementing project traceability.
For example, if I am a business analyst and I’m about to make a change to a [...]

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Ajax to Java Class

January 28, 2007 – 12:16 am

Learn from our experiences in building Contour!
Early on in the development of Contour two of our key requirements was it had to be web based with a intuitive and usable interface. This lead us down the path of Ajax which has been a challenging, fun and I’ll go so far as to say a revolutionizing [...]

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Demystifying Traceability

January 9, 2007 – 9:22 pm

The latest release of Contour, our requirements management tool, incorporates some new features that got me thinking about traceability.
At Jama we use relationship and traceability interchangeably. To us the term “relationship” is much easier to understand than “directional trace” even though it may not be technically correct. (Contour can be set to use whatever [...]

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