UX Design for the Global Configuration Application

The Global Configuration Management (GCM) application is enables configuration leads to define and manage global configurations. The application is a structural editor for organising streams and baselines into global configurations. It also provides configuration leads support to create streams and baselines of configurations and the workflow automation to manage the stabilisation of a product baselines as component baselines are provided by component teams.

What is the Global Configuration Application?

Global Configuration Management (GCM) is an application that assembles configurations for itself and other contributing applications so teams can gain an overall view of the physical and logical parts of their product offering.

A configuration is a baseline or stream that contains a set of versioned artifacts. A global configuration represents a physical or logical piece of a product offering. It gathers configurations for itself and other contributing applications in IoT Continuous Engineering solutions.

Global Configuration Management integrates with the following CLM applications.

The Requirements Management application (RM) delivers requirements definition and requirements management capabilities.
The Quality Management (QM) application delivers testing and test management capabilities.
The Design Management (DM) application delivers design management capabilities.
The software configuration management part of the Rational Team Concert™ application delivers work item capabilities.

PLE Hills

The hills for PLE state that

“Teams enjoy configuration management in and across their ALM tools”

“Configuration Leads can define configurations of a product under development consisting of requirements, tests, designs and implementation”

Design Requirements

The Global Configuration Tool

Need to view and work with the configuration at any level, i.e. product, subsystem, or component level
Need to view and work with component variability, i.e. the component streams and baselines
Need to view and navigate configurations on a per artifact type level, i.e. Local configurations
Need to search, select and replace Local configurations when aggregating a Global configuration
Need automation and let the tools do the heavy lifting at scale

User stories for the administration of global configurations

As a practice leader, I need to understand the PLE process changes to my organization
As a tools admin or practice lead, I need guidance on deploying the PLE tools and practices to my organization
As a tools admin, I need to install media for the PLE solution to be available for download
As a tools admin, I need to configure and activate configuration management services
As a tools admin, I need to configure reporting in the context of a product variant
As a configuration lead, I need to create components and configurations
As a configuration lead, I need to set access rights to components and configurations

User stories for working with global configurations

As a configuration lead, I need to search for global configurations
As a configuration lead, I need to branch a global configuration stream from a global configuration baseline
As a configuration lead, I need to replace contributions in a global configuration stream
As a configuration lead, I need to set ownership and access rights to configurations
As a configuration lead, I need to set the configuration context of a release