Jazz™ operations can be defined as project-level operations or team-level operations. Most test management operations in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager are governed by project-level operations. When you purchase Rational Quality Manager, the application includes one project area, the Quality Manager project area, and one team area, the Quality Manager Team area. You can create additional project areas and team areas.
You can create team areas within project areas. You can create team areas for both organizational purposes and for further defining a set of operations that can be performed only by members of a particular team.
For example, the lab management features in Rational Quality Manager have a set of team-level operations in addition to their project-level operations. To use these lab management features, you must create a team area and add members to that particular team area for so that specific permissions can be granted for team operations. These operations include these tasks:
These team-level operations affect only lab resources that belong to lab resource groups. Each lab resource group must have an associated team area. That team area is used to determine whether a user has permission to perform any operation even though the user does not have permission to perform the corresponding project-level operation. Team areas (and the associated permissions) are only required if both of the following conditions are true: