Scenario 1 - Using the Process Manager for a four-pass project (Thesis to Production)
 
Each project begins at the Process Manager before venturing into Virgil, the process navigator.
As mentioned earlier, the Process Manager bears a great deal of resemblence to Virgil.  (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1:

 
The first step in any process definition is to define the passes.  In this particular case, we've decided on a four-pass process, where the first pass is the inital thesis, and the fourth pass represents a production-level product.  Passes are defined by creating them one by one using the "Create Pass" command on the pull-down menu. (See Figure 2.)

(Note:  You do not need to create all of the passes before starting, just the first one. Be aware though that you may not edit a pass once you have started traversing it in the system proper.)
 

Figure 2     

After the pass has been created, you can set about changing the pre- and post-conditions for that pass.
In this particular example (Figure 3), all four passes have been created and changes are being made on Pass 4.

To change the conditions on the Analyze step, that step is first selection by a left-click of the mouse.
(Note dark box around the selected step.)

Figure 3:

Now that the step has been selected, invoke Change Conditions from the Define pull-down menu
(Figure 4):
 

Figure 4     

...which displays the pre- and post-conditions for possible alteration (Figure 5):
 

Figure 5     
 
 
We'll demonstrate each of the four agents of change (Deactivate, Relax, Reactivate, and Strengthen) individually.  (See Figures 6-10.)

First, if user wishes to Deactivate conditions in this pass,
they would select the particular category (in this case, Precondition),
and invoke Deactivate from the pull-down menu (Figure 6):

Figure 6     

Note that the precondition is no longer enforced.  (Figure 7)
 

Figure 7      

The other three commands work in much the same way, with similar pop-up windows (Figures 8-10):

Figure 8     


Figure 9     


Figure 10