Advantages of Topics

This topic explains the purpose of topics in StarTeam.

Historical Value of Topics

Topics can raise general questions about the project or start very specific discussions about issues, such as feature implementation. While the responses can lead to resolution of these issues, the historical value of these conversations to the project can be even more significant. Future team members can:

  • Reassess decisions more capably.
  • Avoid retrying solutions that were previously found faulty.
  • Understand why a particular solution to a problem became necessary and, therefore, not replace that solution with one that does not meet all the necessary criteria.

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How Topics Can Help

Any type of threaded messaging improves teamwork on product development. However, because StarTeam has tightly integrated components, it enables team members to:

  • Search topics and responses for specific words or phrases.
  • Sort topics and responses.
  • Filter topics and responses.
  • View relationships between topics and their responses.
  • Move and share topics (from the tree format).
  • Link topics directly to folders or other items, such as change requests.
  • Ask questions and quickly receive input while working on a file.
  • Attach notes to a topic explaining why a particular method was used.
  • Point out aspects of the project that may need to change in a later release.

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