Typically for a software project, after the business analyst
creates a requirement collection, the project manager creates a development
plan. To ensure that the project manager correctly captured the requirements
in the development plan, the business analyst can link the plans.
Linking plans ensures that the business analyst sees both the requirements
and the development plans.
Before you begin
You must configure the servers that contain the requirement
and development plans so that the servers can communicate.
Procedure
- In the Plan editor, click the Links tab.
- Click the down arrow next to Add Link, and select Implements Requirement Collection.
- In the Add Link window:
- Click the name of the location for the existing requirements
collection.
- Select Link to existing, and
click OK.
- In the Collections Selection page,
select the requirements collection:
- Type the name of the requirements collection in the
search field. Alternatively, you can search for the requirements collections
in the Filter Display by Folder field.
The requirements collections display in the Select
artifact field.
- In the Select artifact field,
select the requirements collection, and click OK.
- Click Save.
Results
You can browse the requirements collection from the links
page of the plan. You can check whether work items exist that implement
certain requirements that belong to the collection. You can also create
work items from requirements and navigate from the requirement, to
the work item, to the plan to which the work item is planned.