Tutorial: Working with Processes

Exercise: Create a Process Diagram

The goal of this exercise is to use Composer's diagram features.

  1. Switch to Authoring perspective.

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  2. Select the My RUP delivery process that you have been working on.

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  3. Highlight the delivery process in the Work Breakdown Structure and then right-click.

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  4. Click Diagrams > Open Activity Diagram. The diagram editor should open, showing the top level activities (phases).

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  5. Expand the Palette on the right of the diagram view. All the elements required to create an Activity Diagram are available on the palette. Add a new phase to the diagram called "Construction". Create links between the phases to show the sequence of the phases.

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  6. Switch back to the Work Breakdown Structure view and notice the new phase. Also notice that the links you added on the diagram are reflected in the Predecessors column.

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  7. Double click the Inception Phase in the diagram. It will drill down to show the contained Activities. The editor will display the process elements at the level below the current selected element. It is possible to drill down through lower levels by clicking on the diagram elements.

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  8. Close the diagrams you have opened.

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  9. In the Work Breakdown Structure, right-click on the Requirements activity and select Diagrams > Open Activity Detail Diagram. The Activity Detail Diagram is automatically generated. It shows:

    10. You can change the layout of the diagram but you cannot add or remove any elements from the diagram.

     

  10. Close the diagrams you have opened.

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  11. In the Work Breakdown Structure, right-click on the Requirements activity and select, Diagrams > Open Work Product Dependency Diagram. The work products used in the activity are automatically added to the diagram.

Add a (dependency) link between two work products. This indicates that the work product at the arrow end of the link is dependent on the other work product, i.e., the other work product needs to be created in order to create the second work product.

Add a work product descriptor to the diagram.

  1. Switch back to the delivery process and open the Work Product Usage view. Notice the new work product in the Requirements activity.

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  2. Once you have edited a diagram, you can choose to include it or exclude it when publishing the process in a configuration. In the Work Breakdown Structure, right-click on the Requirements activity and select Diagrams > Publishing Options. Check or un-check the types of diagram listed. If a diagram type is not listed, it means that you have not edited that diagram type for the activity yet.

 

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