Tool Mentor: Creating the Vision with Rational Team Concert

Synopsis

"The Vision describes the stakeholders' view of the solution to be developed, in terms of stakeholders' needs and proposed features. It captures the essence of the envisaged solution in the form of high-level Features, Non-functional requirements, and design constraints while providing an overview of the system to be developed. It describes the purpose and provides the boundaries against which future Features, Stories, and decisions are based. Continuously communicating the Vision to all team members is critical to creating alignment and a shared understanding of goals and objectives."

Details

The Product management makes the Vision accessible, so that each member of the team can go back to the Vision at any time.

Steps

The Product management performs the following steps.

Step

Tool guidance

1. Edit the Vision

Document the Vision:

a. Find the Vision widget on the dashboard. Click Project Dashboards > [Project name]

b. Click the dropdown (top right of widget). Click Appearance. Change the title.

c. Click the Edit icon and edit the Vision text (or link to a separate document stored elsewhere).

See Working with Widgets and Configuring widgets

2. Inform the team

Inform the team how they can access the Vision.

There are many different ways to inform the team, including meetings and email.

If you want confirmation that everyone on the team has reviewed the Vision, add them as reviewers to a work item, along with instructions on where to find the Vision and what to review.

(If the project created work items using the "Program Initiation" work item template, then there will be a work item "Create a Vision" that you should use).