Best Practices for CLM Usage Models

Each of the CLM applications includes extensive value-added capabilities that when used properly help customers improve their development processes and meet their business goals. As with many applications, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same outcome. The CLM applications are no different in that regard. They too can be configured in optimal and not so optimal ways.

How customers use and configure a CLM application is called a usage model. This page is a collection point for gathering various usage best practices.

CLM

• Setting up projects for your CLM applications

Rational DOORS Next Generation

• DNG View Query Best Practices

Rhapsody Model Manager

• RMM is powered by RTC SCM

Rational Team Concert

• Rational Team Concert process fundamentals
• RTC Plan Loading Best Practices
• Using Rational Team Concert for source code management in Jenkins jobs

Rational Quality Manager

Jazz Reporting Services

• BIRT Reporting Best Practices
• Report Builder Best Practices

Global Configuration Management

General

• Best practices for CLM global configuration management
• Adoption guidance and practices
• Configuration Management FAQs
• Defining your component strategy
• Patterns for stream usage
  • Single stream strategy
  • Multistream variant strategy
  • Multistream concurrent release development strategy

Deployment

• Non-functional considerations when adopting IBM ELM solution for global configuration management (coming soon)
• Scaling the configuration-aware reporting environment (coming soon)

DOORS Next

• Maintaining the DNG type system in a configuration management environment (Part 1 - manual procedures)
  • Maintaining the DNG type system in a configuration management environment (Part 2: Automation)
  • Maintaining the DNG type system in a configuration management environment (Part 3: Automation Tool Deep Dive)
• Configuration management: Best practices for collaborating with ReqIF between DNG instances

ETM

• Configuration management: Delivering across streams in Rational Quality Manager

EWM

• Configuring Rational Team Concert to establish a global configuration context for work item links