Setting Up Applications and Projects for Benchmarking

You can set up Benchmarking Metrics Data by setting up the Applications, Releases, Projects and Count Sessions in :

• SCOPE and entering metrics data as described below, or
• EXCEL and aggregating metrics data from different sources (eg Portfolio Management, Time Sheet recording or Defect Tracking software) then importing metrics data from EXCEL into SCOPE.

In order to input benchmarking metrics into SCOPE for :

• Maintenance and Support - you first need to set up the Application in SCOPE
• Development and Enhancement - you first need to set up the:
  • Applications that are impacted by the Project - see Set up a New Application
  • Release in the Application that the Project will impact - see Set up a New Release

If you are recording Metrics data about Projects and do not want to record the data at individual Change Request Level for the Project then just set up a new:

• Project in the Project List - see Set up a New Project

If you are recording Metrics data about Releases and do not want to record the data at individual Change Request Level for the Release then just set up a new:

• Release under the Work in Progress Releases for the Application - see see Set up a New Release

If you are recording Metrics data about Projects or Releases and do want to record the data at individual Change Request Level then just set up a new:

• Count Session in the Release - see Set up a New Count Session
• Project in the Project Lists - see Set up a New Project
• Add the Count Session to the Project - see Link Projects to Count Sessions