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Structure of Release Manager

You can think of a product release as a collection of features. The decision to implement these features generates multiple release items: MRDs to identify the features, engineering tasks to implement the features, QA test plans to test the features, and documentation to describe the features. Siebel Field Service helps to make sure that each task, test plan, and document is linked to at least 1 feature.

In Release Manager, engineering tasks, MRDs, QA test plans, and technical publications documents are linked to associated features. Users gain the following benefits:

• Executives can justify decisions about how to allocate engineering resources and schedule QA testing.
• Product marketing managers can see the features in MRDs, and determine the development, testing, and documentation status for the features.
• Engineering and QA managers can see the new features to incorporate into project plans and test plans.

Figure 31 shows how the release items are linked to features.

Figure 31. Features and Release Items

This figure shows an area that represents Release Manager. In this area, tests are linked to test plans, and test plans, engineering tasks, MRDs, and documentation are linked to features at the center.