Blueprints for V-Modell XT on Confluence

Since today Blueprints for the V-Modell^®XT for Confluence are available on the Atlassian Marketplace.

The project for the blueprint add-on has been released on Bitbucket on December 2017. But users of V-Modell^®XT  have now a much easier time to install the document blueprints on Confluence and use them in their daily work.

V-Modell^®XT is a process model. It defines a number of document types to support teams to plan and execute development projects. Blueprints on Confluence support team members to write documents. Blueprints provide a common understanding about which information is expected by readers in a given document.

This is the way we expect most agile teams to use these blueprints: If at least one stakeholder of a project demands a missing piece of information in written form, the team checks if there is an appropriate blueprint provided by V-Modell^®XT. If there is, the blueprint provides properties and sections that provide a basic guidance on creating and maintaining the new document. Due to the use of the section macro neither authors are not forced to provide information for all sections nor are readers burdened with encountering empty sections while reading. It is also easy for readers to navigate the space since documents often automatically render links to related information.

The blueprints provided by the add-on are based on macros provided by the projectdoc Toolbox. Therefore the projectdoc Toolbox must be installed on the Confluence server in order to use the blueprints. The Core Doctypes add-on should also be installed and is available for free on the Atlassian Marketplace. It provides some common projectdoc blueprints to document roles, resources, stakeholders and many more.

The Blueprints for the V-Modell^®XT add-on provides over 50 blueprints based on documents (called products) defined by V-Modell ^® XT, currently only in German language.