Borland Caliber RM Training Course; Caliber RM Essentials

Borland Caliber RM Essentials; Course Overview

Borland Caliber RM Essentials is a one day training session that provides hands-on training to users of Borland Caliber RM. Borland Caliber RM Essentials focuses on using the tool 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 Borland Caliber RM 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 on the Borland Caliber RM Essentials training course?

During the Borland Caliber RM Essentials training course, you will learn not only the Borland Caliber RM product features but also how to utilize them to manage evolving requirement definitions. 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.

After completing the Borland Caliber RM Essentials training course, you will be able to effectively use MicroFocus Borland Caliber RM for any requirement specification activity.

Who should attend the Borland Caliber RM Essentials training course?

The Borland Caliber RM Essentials training course is targeted to those who are new to MicroFocus Borland Caliber RM and also for anyone involved in the definition, review, or approval of requirement specifications.

Course Style

50% lecture and 50% lab

Borland Caliber RM Essentials; Course Content

Overview of Requirements Management

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

Borland Caliber RM; Getting Started

• Technical Architecture
• Structure of Borland Caliber RM
• Logging-On to Borland Caliber RM
• Changing user options
• Accessing Borland Caliber RM’s Help

Borland Caliber RM; Creating and Editing Requirements

• Creating Requirements
• Editing and Saving 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 Borland Caliber RM

• Review of integrations with product such as DefineIT, LDAP/Active Directory, Borland Starteam, Borland SilkCentral

Working with Borland Caliber RM

• Creating References
• File References
• Web References
• Text References
• Requirement Grid Features
• Requirements Verification
• Identifying and Searching Requirements

Reporting

• Existing reports in Borland Caliber RM: Detail, Status, Responsibility
• Individual Requirement Reporting
• Document Factory fundamentals
• Datamart fundamentals

Borland Caliber RM Essentials training course; Prerequisites

Delegates will require a working knowledge of the Windows Operating System

Recommended Follow-On Courses

Borland Caliber RM Essentials - Administration

Duration

1 day

Cost

The cost of attending a scheduled Borland Caliber RM Essentials training course is £435.00 plus VAT per person. Please contact us by email or telephone on +44 (0) 23 9282 2254 should you require a quote for onsite training.

Dunstan Thomas ALM have also written & released a Borland Caliber RM / Enterprise Architect integration add-in. You can read more on our Borland Caliber RM / Enterprise Architect integration add-in page.