Application Lifecycle Management 15.x Site and Project Administration

Module 1: Course Overview

• Identify the contents and objectives of the course
• Define the class schedule and class logistics
• Identify the related courses
• Discuss the lab environment details

Module 2: Implementation Planning

• Describe the different ALM editions
• Identify hardware and software considerations for installation
• Summarize the steps necessary for upgrading to ALM 15.x from previous versions

Module 3: Introduction to Site Administration

• Navigate Site Administration
• Understand the structure of a project
• Analyze the Site Analysis data

Module 4: Domains and Projects

• Define domains, projects, and templates
• Create a domain and project
• Define a template and its use
• Verify that the project connects to the database
• Describe how to enable versioning when creating a project

Module 5: Maintaining ALM Projects

• Query project tables
• Copy and rename a project
• Export and import a project
• Add email capability
• Describe the new optimized repository
• Realign repositories
• Convert a project to Unicode
• Rename a module
• Learn options to optimize ALM performance

Module 6: Upgrading a Project

• Identify previous project versions that can be upgraded to ALM 15.x
• Summarize items to consider before upgrading a project
• Verify and repair a project
• Upgrade a project

Module 7: Managing Users

• Add users to ALM
• Assign users to projects
• Assign Site Administrator and/or Project Administrator privileges to a user
• Configure login authentication
• Configure Smart Card authentication
• Use Single Sign On (SSO)
• Deactivate and delete users
• Interpret the data in Site Connections

Module 8: Managing Licenses

• Load an ALM license
• Assign licenses to domains and projects
• Assign a named license

Module 9: Configuring the Server and Parameters

• Modify server configurations
• Describe significant newly added site parameters
• Define a new database server
• Modify an existing database server
• Update default configuration parameters
• Add optional configuration parameter

Module 10: Project Planning and Tracking

• Define Project Planning and Tracking (PPT)
• Set scheduling options
• Manually activate PPT
• Purge PPT data
• Fine-tune PPT database activity

Module 11: Quality Center Sense

• Define Quality Center (QC) Sense
• Recognize the QC Sense monitors
• Set configuration options

Module 12: Planning Project-level Customizations

• Identify the available project-level customizations
• Plan project groups and permissions
• Determine the entities to customize
• Determine new lookup lists to add
• Plan the workflow customizations needed for email notifications and defect fields

Module 13: Managing User Groups

• Manage a user group
• Assign permissions to user groups
• Add transition rules
• Add a user to a project
• Add a user to a user group
• Use a template project

Module 14: Customizing Entities

• Add user-defined fields to a project
• Customize system fields

Module 15: Customizing Requirement Types and Risk-based Management

• Customize default requirements
• Add user-defined requirement types
• Customize the risk-based quality management criteria

Module 16: Customizing Project Lists

• Identify parts of a lookup list
• Create a lookup list
• Update a lookup list
• Associate a list to a field

Module 17: Customizing Automail and Alerts

• Designate Automail fields for a project
• Define Automail conditions
• Enable alerts

Module 18: Customizing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Customize key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Configure the transitions

Module 19: Creating Business Views and Configuring Sprinter

• Create and manage business views
• Build graphs from the Business Views user interface
• Configure Sprinter

Module 20: Customizing Workflow

• Access the ALM workflow page
• Customize the Defects module lists
• Customize the fields in the Defects module

Module 21: Implementing Workflow Using the Script Editor

• Use the elements of the Script Editor
• Identify the events in the Script Editor
• Add a command button to an ALM module

Lab 22: Appendix A to Z

• Describe the lab scenario
• Restore, verify, repair, and upgrade a project
• Create users and assign them to a project
• Assign a user as a Project Administrator
• Create a domain and a template and assign the Template Administrator
• Create empty projects from a template
• Add optional configuration parameters
• Create and set permissions for a user group
• Configure transition rules
• Add an item to a list
• Add a user to a user group
• Hide data from a user group
• Configure automail
• Create a new field and customize workflow in the Defect module
• Create a new requirement type