Chapter 10 Managing Projects in Base ClearCase

As a project manager, you are responsible for planning, staffing, and managing the technical aspects of a software development project. You decide what will be worked on, assign work to the project's team members, establish the work schedule, and perhaps the policies and procedures for doing the work.

When development is underway, you monitor progress and generate project status reports. You may also approve the specific work items included in a build and subsequently a baseline.

You may also be the project integrator, responsible for incorporating work that each developer completes into a deliverable and buildable system. You create the project's baselines and establish the quality level of those baselines.

Base ClearCase offers many features to make this work easier. Before development begins, you need to complete several planning and setup tasks:

• Setting up the project environment

• Implementing development policies

• Defining and implementing an integration policy

This chapter introduces these topics. The remaining chapters cover the implementation details. Chapter 16, Using ClearCase Throughout the Development Cycle, follows a project throughout the development cycle to show how you can use Rational ClearCase.

Before reading this part of the manual, read Developing Software to become familiar with the concepts of VOBs, views, and config specs.