Organizing changes

After you create changes, you can group similar changes into initiatives. An initiative is work that is related to releases and applications that are centered around a theme.

About this task

In the release tool, you can capture changes in your work by creating change items. A change is a modification that is made to a system such as a bug fix, new feature implementation, task, or some other work. You can group related change items into initiatives. For example, if a release contains several change items that deal with improving performance, you can create an initiative that is called Performance Improvements. Then, you can assign all the performance-related change items to that initiative.

You can also import items (changes) from external products such as JIRA and IBM® Rational® Team Concert. During the import process, Rational Team Concert and JIRA items are converted into changes. You assign these changes to initiatives during the import process.

Procedure

To associate changes to an initiative:

  1. Click Initiatives, and then click Add New.
  2. Complete the details on the page to create an initiative.
  3. Optional: To create a change, click Home > Changes; then, click Add New, and complete the details.
  4. To group change items into initiatives, on the Changes page, select a change item.
  5. In the Assign Selected To section, choose an initiative, and then click Update.
    Note: You can assign a work item to only one release and one application, but you can assign a work item to multiple initiatives. With multiple assignments, you can view the progress of work items that deal with a similar theme, such as performance, over different releases.
Related tasks:
Creating changes
Creating custom change types
Importing work items as initiatives
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