Modeling Dependencies

In addition to the hierarchy as the strongest link between items, Allegra can also relate any items across workspaces with freely definable link types.

Hierarchical structuring is useful where higher-level items are linked to lower-level items. This inevitably leads to tree structures, meaning that a lower-level item can only be related to a higher-level item. Examples for such structures are, for example, arrangements of features, epics, and user stories. If you also want to relate items to each other outside of such tree structures, Allegra offers the “linking” of items with freely definable link types. For example, you can model:

• Dependencies between requirements even across different projects

• Relationships between requirements and tests

• Relationships between portfolio or program artifacts and lower-level artifacts

• Dependencies of milestones to other artifacts

Defining and visualizing such relationships is most easily done in the Allegra Link Navigator.