How to Integrate CA Clarity PPM with VersionOne

How to Integrate CA Clarity PPM with VersionOne

The VersionOne Connector (VersionOne) is a CA Clarity PPM plugin that connects VersionOne with CA Clarity PPM. This integration provides project managers and business users with the following benefits:

• Seamlessly create and manage projects in CA Clarity PPM while using the agile planning features of VersionOne.
• Have visibility into higher-level feature planning, project definition, and work item assignment.
• Have a top-down picture of all projects from a single system.

By linking your agile projects with VersionOne, you can plan and track all effort, resources, and time as follows:

• Create projects in CA Clarity PPM and track them as initiative epics in VersionOne.
• Create workitems (child epics, stories, or defects) in VersionOne and view them in CA Clarity PPM as the project work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Enter effort in VersionOne for workitems (stories, defects, tasks, or tests) and view them in CA Clarity PPM timesheets.

Example: Manage an agile CA Clarity PPM project with VersionOne

At the Documentation Management company, the product development teams use CA Clarity PPM and a separate agile tool to track their software development projects. As more teams embrace agile methodologies, project management receives limited insight into the team efforts. Visibility is suffering both at the program and portfolio levels. Entering time twice in two different systems is leaving developers frustrated. The difficulty in tracking time accurately on these agile projects is leaving the portfolio leaders frustrated.

The company decides to integrate their CA Clarity PPM projects with VersionOne. Project managers can now manage and track all agile projects as epics in VersionOne. They can create workitems for the epics to break down work at the required level of granularity. They can also track effort against the workitems. The effort is synchronized back to the CA Clarity PPM project WBS and timesheets allowing portfolio managers higher-level visibility.

The following diagram describes how the system administrator and project manager integrate CA Clarity PPM with VersionOne:

Follow these steps::

1. Review the prerequisites.
2. Configure VersionOne for CA Clarity PPM:
   1. Create a dedicated VersionOne user.
   2. Authorize CA Clarity PPM with VersionOne.
3. Configure CA Clarity PPM for VersionOne.
4. Set up data transfer jobs.
5. Link a project with VersionOne.
6. Review the integration status.