Starting with HCL Compass 2.0.1, we now ship a new schema and package called EssentialSAFe. You can use this schema to help your team follow Essential SAFe ® practices. More information about SAFe can be found on the Scaled Agile Framework® website. SAFe and Scaled Agile Framework are registered trademarks of Scaled Agile, Inc. In our last blog, Introducing an Essential SAFe® Schema and Package for HCL Compass 2.0.1, we introduced the release train and its supporting records, such as the Solution, Team, ProgramIncrement and Iteration records. In this blog we will introduce  you to the SAFe work items available in the EssentialSAFe schema. Introduction In the EssentialSAFe schema, there are three work items available to scope, plan and implement wonderful experiences in your solutions. They are the Feature, Story, and Task. These make up part of the SAFe Requirements Model, which is shown below: Among the work items shown here, only the Feature and Story are available in Essential SAFe. In addition, the Task work item (optional in SAFe) can be used. Below we describe each of these, including how they get created. Features Feature work items are completed within a Program Increment (PI), which generally lasts 8-12 weeks. There are two types of features, a business feature and an enabler feature. Business features are created by Product Managers with assistance from Product Owners. Enabler features are created by System Architects and System Engineers and provide an Architectural Runway. To create a feature, use the New… menu in the upper left. Note – the menu will say New Query if you are using the sample EssentialSAFe database, because no default record type has been specified yet. Work items in HCL Compass EssentialSAFe are stateful records. That means they follow a state model. The following diagram shows the states and...

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HCL Compass in AWS is the next generation of Cloud Services. HCL Compass helps transform organizations to lower costs, increase agility while enabling reliable and global delivery. Planning your HCL Compass Deployment or Migration into AWS is a smooth transition.  Discover the feature-rich capabilities that allow enterprises to deploy HCL Compass in a cloud environment. Learn how to reduce capital expenditures, decrease ongoing costs, improve scalability and availability, and attain improvements in security and compliance.   “Virtual resources remove the capital expense of procuring and maintaining equipment as well as the expense of maintaining an on-premises data center, for example, cooling, physical security, janitorial services, etc."  The paper, HCL Compass in AWS, provides general guidance for cloud installation and migration from on-premises ClearQuest to AWS HCL Compass. It focuses on the additional configuration points beyond usual on-premises lab deployment. The Compass Release Notes and Deployment documents provide additional information on how and what enterprises should consider when making this move.  To learn more about HCL Compass in AWS, you can read the full whitepaper here, or visit our site for additional information about Compass.  

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Starting with HCL Compass 2.0.1, we now ship a new schema and package called EssentialSAFe. You can use this to help your team follow Essential SAFe® practices. More information about SAFe can be found on the Scaled Agile Framework® website. SAFe and Scaled Agile Framework are registered trademarks of Scaled Agile, Inc. With the HCL Compass Essential SAFe schema, you can create and track an Agile Release Train, and then use it deliver highly desirable solutions to your customers. You can define teams, solutions, program increments and iterations. You can submit, analyze, size, plan and implement features, stories and tasks. The schema is also customizable, so you can fine tune the workflow for your organization. This blog will introduce you the schema and show you how you might set up a release train for your organization. Getting Started To get started using the EssentialSAFe schema, you need to first install and configure HCL Compass 2.0.1, including the Compass Web Server. After installing HCL Compass 2.0.1, create a new schema repository using the maintenance tool. For this introduction, let’s create a sample database too. Now head over to Compass Web. If you installed with the defaults, it would be: http://[servername]/cqweb where [servername] is the hostname or IP address of the Compass web server. At this point, “localhost” would also work if you are using a web browser locally. Log in to the repository and sample database you just created. The default password for “admin” user is blank (no password) - you should change it when you have a chance with the User Administration tool. Now let us look at the sample data, which will give you some ideas on how to set up your own release train. Find the example release train by running the All Release Trains query. This is...

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