1. VERSION 7 What’s to Come?

2. Workflow – Lifecycle Definition  Ability to define custom Lifecycles NEW BEING WORKED IN REVIEW WAITING FOR APPROVAL APPROVED ON HOLD REJECTED

3. Workflow – Services  You can select different services for each stage  Item Level Auditing  Records changes to items into an audit log  Ability to search log reports to see what changes were made by who  Electronic Signatures  Enables commands to require a signature for the command to be completed  Electronic Signatures are performed by entering user password

4. Workflow – Version Control  Allows a command to perform snapshots or checkpoints of the item when the command is run  When Item Versioning is enabled there are two additional options available:  Deleted Items Bin – provides a holding area for deleted objects from where they can be recovered  Require New Version for Checkpointed Items – when selected, the project will require the user to run the New Version command before they can make changed to checkpointed items  This item used to be present on the Project Setup home page under the section “Versioning”

5. Workflow – Privileges  The Access section allows more control over who has access to a project or object when it is in a certain stage or state

6. Workflow – Commands  Commands section allows you to define what life cycle actions can be done to a project when it is in a particular stage  For example, if a project is in the Beta stage, the commands available would likely include Advance to Production followed by Start Second Beta  Commands that do not change the project’s stage can also be defined  For example, a command could be created to check whether a project is ready for production; this might verify that required tests have been run, report any steps that haven’t been completed, etc.

7. Differences – Rich Text Support  New ability to difference between Rich Text Edit fields

8. Differences – Object Differencing  Added ‘Audit Log’ on an object’s History page

9. Differencing – Derivative Support  Differencing Between Derivatives

10. Differencing – Link Support

11. Change Request – Document Definition

13. Formats Include: CR Form – This is the same content as the CR Form cover page, but for use in a section. Change Items – This shows the items that are currently associated with the Change Request (but may or may not have any differences). Change Summary – This is a log of all changes that have been made as part of this change request. Preceding Change Requests – This section allows other CR documents to be identified as change requests that this request is dependent on. This feature will be utilized to construct interleaved changed requests.

14. Change Request – Process

15. Change Request – Types  Non-Interleaved – A single change request is used to modify the data within a project.  Interleaved – Change requests can be interleaved together with the order of application being defined by the interleave details.

16. Change Request – Incorporation and Rejection  Incorporation – Once the changes have been made and gone through the appropriate workflow process, they can be incorporated back into the project and the change request is closed.  Rejection – The other option is a change request is rejected and closed without applying any of the changes back to the project.

17. OLE Support  Ability to embed non-Cockpit objects into Cockpit projects  Double click to open  Save the changes and the image automatically updates

18. Reuse and Linking – Expanded Link Object Types  Requirements, documents and groups could be linked in V6  Tests, Voices, Risks and Mitigations can be linked in V7

19. Reuse and Linking – Copy Tracking  After copying an object, the Traceability page shows the originating point of the copied object  Works within a project or between projects

20. Reuse and Linking – Derivative Project Creation  Ability to create derivatives of projects then show differences between the two Project A Derivative 1 DERIVATIVE SHOW DIFFERENCE

21. Reuse and Linking – Derivative Rerouting  New ability to difference between derivatives Project A Derivative 1 DERIVATIVE SHOW DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DERIVATIVES Derivative 2 DERIVATIVE

22. Customizing – New Filter and Group by Wizards  Create Custom Filters and Groups using a Wizard

23. Customizing – Project Level  You now have the option to create customizations directly from the Project  Can create new definitions directly from the Details page of a section by selecting ‘Create New’  Can edit current customizations from the Details page of a section by selecting ‘Edit’

24. Customizing – Organization Level  Customizations are organized by project, product line and organization

25. Fault Tree Analysis  Fault Tree Analysis is now available for Risks

26. New Rich Text Editor  EditLive!  Improved usability  Improved table editing  Handles clipboard copies better

27. Action Items – Import/Export With Project  Action Items are now included as part of the project Export  Action Items have versioning and auditing  Action Items can have their own workflow

28. Organizations – Creation and Definition  Manage multiple projects for different products in one location  Can organize into different Organizations (folders) and Product Lines (blue folders)  Projects can be created from the Organizations page as well

29. Organizations – Primary Assignments  Can assign new projects to a Primary Organization  Primary Organization is shown on the project home page

30. Organizations – Privilege Inheritance  Organizations have their own members and groups  Organization members automatically get view access to a project  Organizations can have administrators who can create and manage users within the organization