IBM Rational DOORS is the ever so improved leader in the category requirements engineering software
IBM Rational DOORS is designed to match paradigms of requirements engineering that matched the state-of-art up to lately 2011. It is still …
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What is IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management?
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is an end-to-end engineering solution used to manage system requirements to design, workflow, and test management, extending the functionality of ALM tools for better complex-systems development.
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What is IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management?
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is an end-to-end engineering solution used to manage system requirements to design, workflow, and test management, extending the functionality of ALM tools for better complex-systems development.
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On my end, I mainly rely on IBM Rational Team Concert to collaborate with colleagues on projects. It has been easy to get notified when there is an amendment on development lifecycle.
- IBM Rational Team Concert makes it easy to follow business processes.
- Track and coordinate tasks which ease change management procedures.
- Integrate with external applications and APIs.
- Visualize data to streamline reporting.
- No free trial and freemium version.
- Build automation.
- Reporting tools.
- Planning capability.
- Change management tools: work items help track and coordinate tasks.
- Manage complex projects in one single integrated solution.
- Reporting through IBM Rational Team Concert enables us to make the best business decisions.
- Collaboration of teams on projects in one place.
February 17, 2022
A great application for project development.
IBM Rational Team Concert is a collaborative software development, process configuration, planning, software configuration, reporting etc. The main problem the software solves is making projects more accessible and sharable. It's very useful especially for engineers.
- No set-up fee
- Range of functionalities
- No free trial
- Planning
- Configuration
- Customization
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March 28, 2019
IBM DOORS can handle your data referencing needs.
We currently use DOORS to manage the project requirements for one or more projects. We use the software in one department for one or two lines of service that the company offers. DOORS allows us to manage a vast amount of data with relative ease. Although the program is very powerful, it is sometimes difficult to use.
- Allows linking of information in different parts of the program.
- Works fairly well with other programs like Excel and Word.
- Has a layout that is familiar, with a ribbon-like bar at the top.
- The program can seem overwhelming because it is very complex. Maybe a beginner, intermediate and advanced mode?
- The software has some dependencies on other software that make it easy to break at times.
- Setting up the software was a nightmare. It has too many components, and once the connection between them is set you cannot make changes easily.
- Having this software available was mandatory, but allowed us to win a bid for a project that has led to other work.
- We have gained major experience and recognition due to our use of this software.
To me, DOORS is like a super version of Excel and Word combined with a relational database. I have not used too many database softwares before, but DOORS does a very specific job well enough. It is so powerful that some of the tools just go unused. Some parts of the software are too complex for the average user.
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All of the people in our company that use DOORS are part of the same team and at least one project. We are providing services using DOORS for one client, and are working to expand those offerings to get other jobs and projects. We use DOORS to verify and validate project requirements.
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All issues with DOORS are attempted to be fixed in-house first by me, the company IT Admin. If that fails to recover the issue, then we reach out to IBM support. In the past, they have been very helpful and very responsive to our needs, and have gotten us up and running fairly quickly.
- Gather all project requirements in one place with shared access.
- Being able to attach and link the evidence that satisfies those requirements within the same software.
- Being able to compile and then export into an Excel format the information we need to relay back to the client.
- DOORS comes with the ability to archive shadow data, which can speed up the user interaction.
- DOORS allows code scripting to make repeating tasks more manageable.
- Backing up the DOORS database can be as easy as turning off a service and then copying one folder over to another drive.
- We could use this software to organize any large volumes of data.
- We could use this software to expand our lines of business offerings/services.
- We could use this software to branch into similar but different industries that require its use.
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The project we were going to work on required that we use the IBM DOORS software. We needed to purchase and learn the product very quickly to make this happen. We got some help from a reseller and from a local person who had used it extensively before and was willing to do some training for us.
All in all, DOORS is a very capable piece of software. While we had a steep learning curve, it is a good program and does the job well. I'm not sure if we would have gone another route if the choice was up to us the first time around.
February 09, 2018
Rational DNG, not a mature platform to mage requirement
Rational Doors Next Generation (DNG) has been used by the application division of my customer company, and specifically by several functional analysts. The tool appears to have really specific features that allow managing artifacts like embedded documents and stores them in a central repository, and then is able to track with a strict connection the work items and codes. It shows to be a not really easy tool to use. Surely it can give really good benefits enabling the business requirements of the CR and coding activity, but to provide a consistent connection you must always work on the embedded artifact and this scenario is really not so user-friendly.
Plus if you decide to extract the artifact in a Word document after you have modified it, it is not convenient to modify the external document and then import it again because it will not override the previous one with the document versioning. It means that even if there is an import feature it is not easy to repeatedly import the same document in a different session. The graphical design features provided are not very stable. I think that it would be a better choice if the artifacts could be implemented in HTML form and not embedded as an artifact.
Plus if you decide to extract the artifact in a Word document after you have modified it, it is not convenient to modify the external document and then import it again because it will not override the previous one with the document versioning. It means that even if there is an import feature it is not easy to repeatedly import the same document in a different session. The graphical design features provided are not very stable. I think that it would be a better choice if the artifacts could be implemented in HTML form and not embedded as an artifact.
- Good feature of tracking artifacts with work items
- Interesting graphics viewer for the mapping relationship
- Interesting concept and technical solutions for the module
- Versioning feautures of the artifacts revision
- Transform the artifact in HTML in form template
- Improve the import feature, because often it crashes the procedure
- Improve the managing of the folder structure
- The application teams were not able to provide a specific team to be able to work completely on the tool because most of the artifacts and documents were produced by the business division that creates sub-standard documents that are easy to import.
- The approach to defining standard artifacts and ability to store them in a central repository was well understood but the way DNG works was considered really too complicated and not user-friendly.
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I found [them] to be more flexible and with the possibility to create [an HTML format].