Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) Releases

Using the Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) feature, you can now track application readiness by defining milestones for activities of an application release in the Releases module. PPT uses key performance indicators (KPIs) to analyze the data of your defined milestones. The overall health and deployment readiness of a release in displayed in the form of a scorecard. The scorecard monitors and tracks how well each milestone is being met on a daily basis. To further analyze your output, you can generate dashboard reports and graphs.

For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) Releases.

PPT is not available for HP Quality Center Starter Edition, HP Quality Center Enterprise Edition, or HP ALM Performance Center Edition.

PPT Releases Overview

Project planning and tracking (PPT) enables quality assurance managers to track application readiness by defining goals for activities of an application release. For each release, you define release scope items. A release scope item refers to a subdivided section of a release, for example a new feature, a change to an existing feature, or a new theme. For each scope item you define the related requirements, tests, test sets, and defects. To measure the progress of the release scope items, you associate them with milestones. A milestone is a point in the time-line of a release that signifies the completion of a deliverable. It enables you to track and validate the progress of the release. A milestone can be associated with one or more release scope items. PPT collects and analyzes the data from the defined milestones using key performance indicators (KPIs). A KPI is a quantifiable measure designed to track a critical performance variable over time, and measure the essential outcome of quality assurance activities. For each KPI, you define threshold levels to set warning limits. PPT uses the KPIs to analyze a milestone's readiness data, and to show the overall health and deployment readiness of a release in the form of a scorecard. The scorecard monitors and tracks how well each milestone is being met on a daily basis. To further analyze your output, you can generate dashboard reports and graphs. ALM Editions: Functionality related to PPT is not available for Quality Center Starter Edition, Quality Center Enterprise Edition, or Performance Center Edition. For task details, see How to Work with PPT. Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) Releases Topics Concepts  Tasks  Reference

How to Work with PPT

This task describes how to define releases, release scopes and milestones, and how to track release scope status in the Releases module. To learn more about PPT, see PPT Releases Overview. ALM Editions: Functionality related to PPT is not available for Quality Center Starter Edition, Quality Center Enterprise Edition, or Performance Center Edition. Tip: For a use-case scenario related to this task, see How to Work with PPT - Use-Case Scenario. Define releases  Open the Releases module. On the ALM sidebar, under Management, select Releases. For user interface details on the Releases module, click here. Create folders. Right-click the Releases root folder and select New Release Folder. To create a sub-folder, right-click a folder and select New Release Folder. Add releases. Right-click a release folder and select New Release. For user interface details, click here. Alternatively, if you are working with a project that is linked to a template project, you can create a release by copying from the template project. Right-click a release folder and select New Release from Template. For user interface details, click here. Define release scope items  In the releases tree, select a release. Click the Release Scope tab. Add release scope items and define the related requirements, tests, test sets, and defects. For user interface details, click here. Define milestones  Add milestones. In the releases tree, right-click a release and select New Milestone. The New Milestone dialog box opens. Define timelines for your milestone. For user interface details, click here. Associate release scope items. In the releases tree, select a milestone. Click the Milestone Scope tab. Associate the milestone with release scope items. For user interface details, click here. Associate KPIs. Click the KPIs tab. Configure related KPIs and set boundaries for performance against those KPIs. For user interface details, click here. Analyze progress  View scorecard. In the releases tree, select a release. Click the Scorecard tab. View the status and progress of your defined milestones. For user interface details on the Scorecard tab, click here. View Gantt chart. In the releases tree, select a release. Click the Master Plan tab. For user interface details, click here. Create PPT graphs. For task details on how to generate graphs, click here. Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) Releases Topics Concepts  Tasks  Reference