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Projects and Teams

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Enterprise Architect helps you to create projects for development under a range of work conditions, from single user/local access through to multiple-role teams working in a distributed environment.  You both protect and manage the model data itself, and communicate information on the data in the form of documentation and reports, using facilities such as those listed below.

Topics

Topic

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Creating a project in a simple, file-based repository (.EAP file )

 

File-Based Repositories

Creating the project in one of a range of DBMS repositories - these provide for larger models with more concurrently connected users

(Corporate and extended editions)

 

Server-Based Repositories

Tools for enabling team or multiple-user development in the project

 

Team Development

Tools for managing change within the model

 

Change Management

A variety of tools for managing modeling and project activities

 

Project Management

Maintaining the integrity of the project data

 

Project Maintenance

Sharing the reference data used across the project, between models and between projects

Sharing Reference Data

Reference Data

 

Enabling each user to configure their personal preferences for how project tools display and behave on their workstation

 

Local Options

You can have recorded discussion and communication of decisions using the Team Review

 

Team Review Tools

Managing work and resources allocated to tasks

 

Project Task Allocation

Communicating and collaborating on model development through the Model Mail facilities

 

Model Mail

Record and manage personal work within the project.

 

Personal Tasks

Tracking important project events, resource issues and allocations through the Project Calendar

 

Project Calendar

Documenting your model through RTF or HTML reports, which you can tailor to your purposes

 

Reporting