VERSION 7What’s to Come?

Workflow – Lifecycle Definition Ability to define custom

Lifecycles

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REJECTED

Workflow – Services You can select different services for each

stage

Item Level Auditing Records changes to items into an audit log Ability to search log reports to see

what changes were made by who

Electronic Signatures Enables commands to require a

signature for the command to becompleted

Electronic Signatures are performed by entering user password

Workflow – Version Control Allows a command to perform snapshots or

checkpoints of the item when the command is run

When Item Versioning is enabled there are two additional options available: Deleted Items Bin – provides a holding

area for deleted objects from wherethey can be recovered

Require New Version for Checkpointed Items – when selected, the project will require the user to run the New Version command before they can make changed to checkpointed items This item used to be present on the Project Setup home

page under the section “Versioning”

Workflow – Privileges The Access section allows more control over

who has access to a project or object when it is in a certain stage or state

Workflow – Commands Commands section allows you to define what

life cycle actions can be done to a project when it is in a particular stage For example, if a project is in the

Beta stage, the commandsavailable would likely includeAdvance to Production followedby Start Second Beta

Commands that do not change the project’s stage can also be defined For example, a command could be created to check

whether a project is ready for production; this might verify that required tests have been run, report any steps that haven’t been completed, etc.

Differences – Rich Text Support New ability to difference between Rich Text

Edit fields

Differences – Object Differencing Added ‘Audit Log’ on an object’s History page

Differencing – Derivative Support Differencing Between Derivatives

Differencing – Link Support

Change Request – Document Definition

Change Request – Document Definition

Change Request – Document Definition

Formats Include:

CR Form – This is the same content as the CR Form cover page, but for use in a section.

Change Items – This shows the items that are currently associated with the Change Request (but may or may not have any differences).

Change Summary – This is a log of all changes that have been made as part of this change request.

Preceding Change Requests – This section allows other CR documents to be identified as change requests that this request is dependent on. This feature will be utilized to construct interleaved changed requests.

Change Request – Process

Change Request – Types Non-Interleaved – A single change request is used to

modify the data within a project.

Interleaved – Change requests can be interleaved together with the order of application being defined by the interleave details.

Change Request – Incorporation and Rejection

Incorporation – Once the changes have been made and gone through the appropriate workflow process, they can be incorporated back into the project and the change request is closed.

Rejection – The other option is a change request is rejected and closed without applying any of the changes back to the project.

OLE Support Ability to embed non-Cockpit objects into Cockpit

projects

Double click to open

Save the changes andthe image automaticallyupdates

Reuse and Linking – Expanded Link Object Types

Requirements, documents and groups could be linked in V6

Tests, Voices, Risks and Mitigations can be linked in V7

Reuse and Linking – Copy Tracking After copying an object, the Traceability page

shows the originating point of the copied object

Works within a project or between projects

Reuse and Linking – Derivative Project Creation

Ability to create derivatives of projects then show differences between the two

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Reuse and Linking – Derivative Rerouting New ability to difference between derivatives

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Customizing – New Filter and Group by Wizards

Create Custom Filters and Groups using a Wizard

Customizing – Project Level You now have the option to create

customizations directly from the Project Can create new definitions directly from the

Details page of a section by selecting ‘Create New’ Can edit current customizations from the Details

page of a section by selecting ‘Edit’

Customizing – Organization Level Customizations are organized by project, product line and

organization

Fault Tree Analysis Fault Tree Analysis is now available for Risks

New Rich Text Editor EditLive! Improved usability Improved table editing Handles clipboard copies better

Action Items – Import/Export With Project Action Items are now included as part of the

project Export Action Items have versioning and auditing Action Items can have their own workflow

Organizations – Creation and Definition Manage multiple projects for different

products in one location Can organize into different

Organizations (folders) andProduct Lines (blue folders)

Projects can be created fromthe Organizations pageas well

Organizations – Primary Assignments Can assign new projects to a Primary

Organization

Primary Organization is shown on the project home page

Organizations – Privilege Inheritance Organizations have their own members and

groups

Organization members automatically get view access to a project

Organizations can have administrators who can create and manage users within the organization