IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS former IBM Rational DOORS profits very much from the mighty market position it had till today. It had been the most favored requirement engineering tools suite with the highest investments in the infrastructure concerning hardware, software, and knowledge sources. It was embedded in knowledge sources of test stands, hardware labs, and knowledge database servers. It allowed for some of the highest profit changes and made the fame with it. But the paradigms of requirements engineering change. If not were superseded by completely different approaches for the target solution worlds. The foremost position in the selling tables is unstable if changes are not solved or coped with by the strategist at IBM and their customers. Since the highly successful alternative suits are already at the market, and some are from IBM already the lifecycle for IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS is at the later highs. But the suite is still at the very top and very popular. There are still many problems unsolved and many wishes at the customers to make the use more comfortable and efficient at the overall level. If the time of setting up the software package is passed the adoption get more extended and complicated. There is a lot of work at the stage around and the expertise will be required for a long time from now.

IBM Rational Team Concert is a reliable project management solution that suit our day-to-day business processes. It makes it effective to enhance data-centric decisions by visualizing data in real-time.

While working on a complex project it is important all the needed change requests are handled in an effective manner, this tool helps us do exactly the same, it had great features to manage those change management tickets, making sure to merge the change with existing workflow, prioritize the requests centrally so there are no duplicates. Easy to collaborate across different teams and colleagues across the aisle.

In that case where your company needs to configure a process, this tool will be useful. You will be able to design and program processes, as well as track and coordinate tasks. The tracking aspect is also very helpful as it enables to use data in order to identify potential issues.

IBM Rational Quality Manager is well suited to be used by the Quality Team in any Software Project. The Application provides good features to track Test Cases and Test Execution Results. On the other hand, the Application suffers from a very Old User Interface and a Very Bad overall User Experience. You have to go through very long and complicated steps to something which is not intuitive at all. Also, some features depend on having IBM RTC integrated with it.

DOORS is a very specific piece of software. It is suited to managing contract/project requirements. It works well to list and connect a lot of data, and then gives you the opportunity to show these relationships in several different ways, both graphical and in reports. The software is costly, so your project needs to be large enough to support it.

I think that in cases where there is a skilled functional analyst team that is well trained in the use of the tools and completely dismisses the use of Word documents to collect the requirements, it is a good fit. It seems that a good solution to improve efficiency to collect the specification is to use the module. If you need to build more accurate artifacts containing even fields and not just free text this is not possible. It would be helpful to store the specific value in metadata, and it would be interesting to compile artifacts with predefined fields that could be queried.