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Lifecycle Considerations

Analyzing your current software development and maintenance activities and mapping them into a lifecycle is a crucial first step to implementing CA Harvest SCM successfully. Consider the following questions and plan your lifecycle on paper before attempting to set it up in CA Harvest SCM.

• How many functional groups are involved in the lifecycle? Of these groups, which must have their activities isolated from one another and which can share a common working area?
• How many separate phases of development can you identify? At what point are approvals required and from whom? Who should be notified when a change is ready to move from one phase to another?
• What activities take place in each separate phase of development and who must do them?
• How is problem tracking be used with development? Do problems have their own lifecycle in a support project or are they created in a development project?