Specifying Initiative Life
To model component development scenarios of your portfolio without impacting the life of components, you will use initiatives and associate an object life to each of these.
The object life is a set of time periods representing the updated calendar of object life cycle states.
Initializing initiative life
To create an object life on an initiative:
1. Open the properties dialog box of the owner portfolio.
2. Select the Transformation page.
The Transformation Initiatives displays the list of portfolio initiatives.
3. Select the initiative and click Property.
The properties dialog box of the initiative appears.
4. In the Characteristics page, expand the Gantt section.
5. Click the Initialize Object Life button. This button is visible if the initiative does not hold an object life.
Updating object life from an initiative
The different component development scenarios of a portfolio are studied through initiatives connected to one or several scenarios. When a scenario is adopted, you can automatically update the life of objects associated with portfolio initiatives from the initiatives. See
"Validating a scenario".
For more details on object life, see "Viewing Application Life (Gantt Chart)".