Work Items

Rational Team Concert uses the Work Item as a fundamental mechanism to track, plan, and assign development tasks. On an abstract level, a Work Item is a task. However, this Work Item provides a way to track progress, plan releases, and monitor the project's health. Typically, Work Items are bugs, enhancements, and tasks with varied priorities and are generally attached to a specific release. Rational Team Concert inherently supports the connection between the Work Item and source code. Thus, as a developer, you can go to Work Items from source code and vice-versa.

In the following sections, we will see how to create Work Items and customize them. In this process, we will test our BookManager application as the product owner and report our TODOs as Work Items and later assign them to team members. While creating the Work Items we will explore the various UI elements like My Work View, Dashboards, Queries, Team Central, and more.

Work Items UI

There exists multiple ways to access the...