Imagine entering a state-of-the-art office building where advanced technologies work seamlessly together to create a comfortable working environment. A variety of systems come together here – from air conditioning and automatic door openers to intelligent lighting systems and security monitoring. The development and implementation of these systems requires the consideration of numerous norms and standards.
Optimization of Processes in Standardized Projects
Compliance with product-related standards is essential to ensure the safety, quality, and legality of a product in the marketplace, but it can add significant complexity to a project. Creating and maintaining requirements catalogs requires comprehensive knowledge of the various requirements and their integration into the development process. Especially in multi-project management with similar standard requirements, processes can be optimized in this area.
In objectiF RPM, you can now easily transfer requirements with assigned test cases and attachments from an existing project to another project of your choice. If a standards catalog already exists, you can select the requirements that are also relevant for your new project and import them.
You can have a look at the details of this process here:
Setting up the Standards Requirements to be transferred
In our example, the goal is to adopt the requirements of standard 4711 during product development. These requirements must first be defined in a catalog with corresponding properties.
A configured query is required to transfer the requirements to other projects. Here you can configure relevant columns and filters.
If attachments such as DIN standards in PDF format or similar files already exist in the requirements catalogs, these can also be attached when transferring the requirements. Furthermore, you can already store and transfer test cases with test steps for the individual requirements in your requirements catalogs.
The refinements, derivations and dependencies between your requirements are not lost during import, but are transferred automatically.
1. Open Project
- Navigate to the project into which the requirements are to be imported in objectiF RPM.
- Open the backstage menu and select “Project” > “Import” > “Derive requirements”.
2. Adjust the settings
- Use the import wizard for further configuration.
- Decide whether the requirements should be created hierarchically as in the source project or in a target package.
- Select whether you want to transfer the corresponding test cases and attachments.
3. Transfer Selected Requirements
- For “Query from source project”, select the “Standards requirements” query.
- Select the requirements that you would like to transfer to your project.
- Click “Derive” to transfer the selected requirements to your project of choice.
After a successful import, you can see in detail in the log which elements were created, changed or skipped. You can carry out the import as often as you like and adopt further requirements. When you open the import wizard again, the last settings you used and the selected query are saved.
Identify Requirements in the Standard Requirements
To ensure that all projects are always up to date, it is important to recognize changes to the standard requirements at an early stage and to understand the impact on existing projects. With the help of queries, you can track such changes to see exactly in which projects derivations of the standard requirement exist and where corresponding adjustments need to be made.
Conclusion
Importing requirements into objectiF RPM offers an efficient and time-saving solution for developing complex projects, especially in a standards-based environment. By being able to import requirements including test cases, attachments and their relationships from existing projects, you can ensure that all relevant standards are also considered in your new project. This not only optimizes the development process, but also facilitates the continuous maintenance and adaptation of your requirements in multi-project management.
You can test the import of requirements as part of an individual test or test download of objectiF RPM and convince yourself!