Rational Software Architect Design Manager

Theme	Description	Benefit
Central Design Storage	All designs for an organization or system can be stored and accessed from a central location. These designs can be searched, viewed, analyzed on the server from Rational Software Architect or Web client. The new Relationship diagram supports impact analysis and discovery of related design elements and resources.	Improve communication and increase team knowledge through an enterprise and system-wide repository with Web-based access.
Stakeholder Collaboration	Stakeholders have self-serve access to design milestones, improving collaboration and quality of designs. Stakeholders can determine how their task relates to designs with traceable links to work items, requirements and test cases.	Improve quality by enabling the extended team to easily access and review designs and trace analysis. Keep stakeholders informed on how their work relates to designs
Design Reviews	Designers automate reviews, specifying which designs and stakeholders participate. Stakeholders can view the design and attach comments and mark-up via the Web or rich client. Design reviews can be linked to Rational Team Concert work items for planning and tracking.	Speed up decision-making by keeping people informed as decisions are made. Improve quality by ensuring that the extended team has direct input into updates and corrections. Automate the design review process.
Multi-Discipline Document generation and reporting	Users create templates and generate documents and reports pulling data from all relevant sources using open interfaces. Documents can show the impact of design changes on other lifecycle resources leveraging the OSLC linking data. Reports can include comments and details from design reviews.	Easily create comprehensive documentation for specifications, communication, compliance and auditing. Help prove compliance by including OSLC link information and design review information.
Role / License	RSA Design Reviewer	RSA Design Manager
Audience	For extended team members who need to access and collaborate on models and designs	For design practitioners using RSA to create models and designs
View and search designs
Attach comments and markup
View designs in dependency diagram
View and create design links
Dashboards
Import Rational Software Architect designs
Schedule import from SCM
Setup design reviews
Create design baselines
Feature	Description	Benefits
View and search designs	Teams can search through all of an organization's designs based on keywords. The search can include designs, design elements, attributes, descriptions, and meta-data information	Improves collaboration and reuse within and across project teams.
Attach comments and markup	Team members can view the design and provide feedback by attaching comments and marking-up designs via the Web or rich client.	Save time, improves communication and improves overall quality of the designs by making it easy for all stakeholders to provide feedback.
View designs in dependency diagram	Team members can view model resources in a tree-like structure, where models can be expanded and collapsed in a hierarchical manner	Save time and improve overall quality with the ability to understand the effects of change through impact analysis and discovery of related design elements and resources.
View and create design links	Team members can link from design elements to other designs and lifecycle artifacts (architecture management, requirements management, change management, and quality management) through open services for lifecycle collaboration (OSLC).	Improves quality and provides the assurance that designs cover all the stated requirements, and that the model elements are all covered by tests and the status of those tests.
Dashboards	Provides team members a live view to follow design management activities through a web dashboard that is integrated with other Jazz based lifecycle management products.	Helps everyone easily monitor, scorecard, and collaborate on projects and address problems
Import Rational Software Architect designs	Designs can be imported directly from file system	Enables easy import of models into RSA Design Manager
Schedule import from SCM	Rational Software Architect models can be scheduled to be imported from the SCM or file system periodically	Ensures the latest view of the design is published.
Setup design reviews	Designers automate reviews, specifying which designs and stakeholders participate. Design reviews can be linked to Rational Team Concert work items for planning and tracking	Speed up decision-making by keeping people informed as decisions are made. Improve quality by ensuring that the extended team has direct input into updates and corrections. Automate the design review process
Create design baselines	Designers can take a snapshot of the designs published on the repository and store them for both reviewers or designers to view	Simplifies the design review process by ensuring team members are synchronized in reviewing the same snapshot of the design, and to allow team members to easily go back and reference to ensure comments and markups are addressed in future baselines.

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