Associating child activity records with a parent activity record

As project manager, you might assign activities for large tasks to developers. When the developers research their activities, they might determine that they need to perform several separate activities to complete one large activity. For example, an “Add customer verification functionality" activity might require significant work in multiple product components, for example, the graphic user interface (GUI), the command-line interface, and a library. To more accurately track the progress of the activity, you can decompose it into three separate activities.

By using the parent and child controls in Rational® ClearQuest®, you can accomplish this decomposition and tie the child activities back to the parent activity.