Have you heard about our newest class—Agile Essentials for Project Teams? If you're curious about Agile and how to apply it in your environment, this is the class for you! During this two-day hands-on class, you will learn about the history of Agile software development, about key roles on an Agile team, how to participate in an Agile team, and about Agile project success factors.

This fun, interactive class is designed to help your team quickly grasp new concepts and techniques, and learn how to begin applying Agile concepts and practices to a project. They'll also learn how to estimate and plan Agile projects, inspection and adaptation techniques, Agile project reporting methods, and more.

TestTrack's sample project includes a sample workflow for managing requirements and requirement documents. In most cases, customers base their workflow on the sample, but want to tweak it to meet their needs. This article explains how to make three quick tweaks to the sample workflow: configuring when requirements and requirement documents are locked, enabling test cases to be generated from requirements, and configuring the workflow states and events.

Quick Tweak # 1

The following screenshot shows an open requirement document with a number of requirements. Requirement 2.1.1.1 has a lock icon with the following text displayed under it: Record is locked through workflow. This indicates the requirement is in a workflow state that locks it, which prevents other users from editing the requirement.

Requirement Document with Locked Requirement

To change when requirements are locked, log in to TestTrack. Choose Tools > Administration > Workflow. Select "Requirements" from the Type drop-down list. Click the "States" tab if it is not selected.

The Oil and Gas Division of Siemens Energy is a leading supplier of the oil and gas industry. Its portfolio includes solutions for power generation and distribution, compressors with electrical and mechanical drives, process and automation technology, water management, and integrated IT solutions.

The Siemens AG Industrial Steam Turbines business unit required a comprehensive source code management solution that could support their complex branching requirements and enable enterprise-wide configuration management and collaboration for its large, geographically distributed development team.

Siemens chose Seapine's Surround SCM enterprise source code management solution after a technical benchmark against other competitive products, such as Perforce and Microsoft Team Foundation Server. With Surround SCM, Siemens AG has better control over the software code in its development process and enhanced collaboration for better productivity and efficiency.

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