Caliber 2008 Essentials

Course Overview
A one-day session, CaliberRM Essentials is a tools-oriented course that provides hands-on training for anyone using CaliberRM. The focus will be on using CaliberRM in the context of daily requirements analysis, including creating requirements, collaborating with other interested parties, and publishing approved requirement baselines. Throughout the course, you will use the CaliberRM user interface to accomplish these tasks and will discuss how to adapt the interface itself so that each analyst may have a personal view of the requirements information.

What will I learn?
During the course, you will learn not only the CaliberRM product features but also how to utilize them to manage evolving requirement definitions. For example, you will learn how to extend requirement definitions with custom attributes and, if desired, reuse these customizations as part of a project or enterprise standard. You will also learn how to define dependency relationships between requirements and across development technologies as well as reporting capabilities so that you can extract critical development metrics from your requirements repository.

All concepts are taught through a combination of instructor-led discussion and self-paced exercises. After completing this course, you will be able to effectively use CaliberRM for any requirement specification activity.

Course Style
This course is targeted to those who are new to CaliberRM and also for anyone involved in the definition, review, or approval of requirement specifications

50% lecture and 50% lab

Course Contents

Overview of Requirements Mangement
• Conceptual overview of Requirements Management
• Requirements Management terms and definitions


Getting Started with CaliberRM
• Technical Architecture
• Structure of CaliberRM
• Logging-On to CaliberRM
• Changing user options
• Accessing CaliberRM’s Help
  
  Creating and Editing Requirements
• Creating Requirements
• Editing and Saving Requirements
• Moving Requirements
• Moving Requirements
• Deleting Requirements
• Creating Requirements from MS Word
• Importing Requirements from MS Word
  
  Collaboration
• Threaded discussions
• Requirements owners and assigning responsibility
• Notification and status
• Sharing requirements across projects
  
  Traceability
• Requirements Traceability
• Understanding Traces (benefits and cautions)
• References (and comparisons to traceability)
• Traceability and CMMI Compliance
• Requirement Types and Traceability
• Tracing to requirements in other projects and external artefacts
  
  Baselines and Impact Analysis
• Impact Analysis overview and tools
• Traceability and Impact Analysis
• Creating, initializing, maintaining and deleting baselines
• Mapping a baseline to Design, Build and QA (test coverage)
• Comparing Baselines for Impact Analysis
• Locking Baselines
• Digital Signatures and Signatories
  
  Integrations with CaliberRM
• Review of integrations with product such as DefineIT, LDAP/Active Directory, Starteam, SilkCentral
  
  Working with CaliberRM
• Creating References
• File References
• Web Refrences
• Text References
• Requirement Grid Features
• Requirements Verification
• Identifying and Searching Requirements
  
  Reporting
• Existing reports in Caliber: Detail, Status, Responsibility
• Individual Requirement Reporting
• Document Factory fundamentals
• Datamart fundamentals

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of Windows operating System

Recommended Follow-On Courses

• CaliberRM Essentials - Administration
• CaliberRM Advanced - Effective and Efficient Requirements Management

Duration
1 day

Cost
£395 plus VAT