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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

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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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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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Steffen Jäschke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Open Services supporting Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC).
  • Required definition management and managed capabilities enabling.
  • Rational DOORS Web Access for local on the test field presence.
  • On-sites established reporting system.
  • Approved linking requirements to test plans
  • Engineering Requirements Management DOORS traces requirements thereby eliminates manually processes and spreadsheets, for improved productivity.
  • Returns the investment efficiently.
  • It is hard to conserve the achieved qualities for the experienced customers under futher technological changes.
  • The growing diverge of the product lines causes worries about the appropriateness of the software package for futures requirements policy package in software development.
  • Windows is seemingly not the best platform choice for the future. Security issues pertain and new come to the problem atop.
  • It seems more probable the IBM favors Jazz to Engineering Requirements Management DOORS due to advantages in the development process and the technologies reused from the infrastructures on which the servers will be run.
  • The advantage the Engineering Requirements Management DOORS is well established at the customers will be melted in the sun very soon and Jazz will be favored by the customers too.
  • The recognized databases will be updated to newer software platforms making a difference in manageable size and depth of knowledge at the same broadness.
  • The size of the software is already a problem for present day installations. There is no or little space to grow further. New splits and adopted packages are unavoidable.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Manage requirements
  • Manage traceability between different modules
  • Linking between the modules is very easy and can be done with different methods.
  • The DXL scripting is not as intuitive as it could be.
  • Integration with other software applications or requirements management tools is not as easy as it could be.
  • Formatting and editing could be expanded a bit more like Word.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Parent to child requirement traceability
  • Auto tracking of all changes made to an object
  • Ability to create a toolkit to generate documents straight from DOORS
  • Linking between DOORS modules using DXL
  • Not web based
  • Better interface with other tools
  • Ability to track requirements approval and sell off
Andrea McConnell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Requirement management and process definition.
  • Tracking of different artifacts within project such as defects and tickets.
  • Tracking code updates via automation.
  • Training and how to do guide can be improved to help new users.
  • Performance can be improved as there are times when it feels too slow to respond.
  • More API integration can help a lot.
Veronica Derrick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Excellent project easy management.
  • Collaboration functions are very useful.
  • High quality data analytics production.
  • New user may have a difficult to to manage the platform.
  • Setting of various options is complicated.
  • Fully functionalities setting.
October 16, 2020

Powerful but Clunky

Kathy Ding | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Stores requirements
  • Compatible with HP ALM
  • Filters well and is customizable
  • Terrible UI and not intuitive
  • Too slow to connect to, launch and run
  • Scripts to use the features are way too complicated to write and maintain.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use with well defined template and user defined fields. New team can setup a project area easily by copying an existing template and adding customized fields for their special needs.
  • It can be used during almost the whole project cycle and give us a better view and control on the projects.
  • Lots of built-in report functions.
  • I feel like it is too heavy sometimes and updating is not very straight forward. For example, if I want to change an incident ticket (IN) to a service request (SR) and add some comment for the change, I have to first change the IN to SR, then click refresh which takes a few seconds, then add a comment. If I forget the refresh step, my comment will be discarded without warning like my ticket is not in the latest status. This also happens when somebody else changes the ticket during my edit as I can not lock the ticket exclusively.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Big panorama view in relation to requirements. You can have all your artifacts in one place with total traceability.
  • MS Office templates and IBM Requisite Pro compatibility.
  • IBM ways of doing things, like customizing your variables and so on.
  • Too complex for projects or businesses that don't really need the detail. It is basically overkill.
  • If you are new to IBM Rational tools, it may be a medium learning curve. You'd also need lots of training from your people, since, as usual, this tool shouldn't be managed alone.
  • It may seem old fashion compared to JIRA and the current control tools used in IT industry.
Qaiser Islam, SPC4 | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • There are a couple of areas where IBM Rational DOORS is quite strong. First, it is part of the IBM CLM solution so the artifacts developed in this module can be easily available for other functions like development and QA. They can link with their stories and test cases and team leads and managers can use traceability matrix to find out where there are gaps in coverage.
  • Comprehensive configuration management functionality (concept of multiple streams and global configuration) is available, which can be helpful if you need to implement configuration management scenarios for your product or project. For example, a certain version of a requirement can be linked with one story and another version of same requirement can be linked with another story. This is the unique feature which other current tools in the market don't provide.
  • It's highly customizable so you can configure the project areas based on your need. You can have your own requirement types, and you can define templates to speed up the process. Comprehensive review functionality is there as well.
  • Wireframes are quite basic. If you need intuitive and interactive wireframes to elaborate the requirements. you probably need to define outside the tool and then upload as image.
  • ER (define data dictionaries) modeling is not there.
  • Use case modeling is quite basic. You can visualize the use case and actors relation but the tool does not enforce the rules.
  • Does not support offline work.
Giovanni Scioti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides a complete workflow of work items to be performed within a team.
  • Provides customizable templates for creating and modifying the workflows based on how your team functions.
  • Provides, easy to use reports and querying functionality for managers to get a good glimpse of the overall project.
  • IBM RTC user-interface feels very dated compared to the competition.
  • Often times we find it to be very heavy and hence is slow to respond, which is sometimes discouraging to use.
  • It lacks some of the main integrations we would like to see from a development standpoint like seamless Git integration for instance.
November 21, 2016

RTC vs alternatives

Yaron Lavi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • One suite for all ALM needs; from requirements to code to bug and test management.
  • Handles well complex stream and merge activities.
  • Good API support, backed by a big vendor.
  • Clunky user interface and experience.
  • Hard to learn and "get around."
  • Sometimes feels you're working for it instead of the opposite.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use
  • Traceability
  • Generation of Reports
  • Customization to match your implementation
  • Can be self documenting and recording of history
  • Most reports and queries just display data graphically for trending. It would be nice to be able to easily build tabular reports.
  • The application is logistically complex, meaning there are many moving pieces to keep track of. One needs to work with the application learn it. Some people have trouble with this when they are new to RTC and have tight developmental time lines.
  • Running the RTC in house requires trained, dedicated staff. Upgrades are difficult and require expert level knowledge.
Nishad Pandarathodi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It a a good agile scrum project management customized web based tool
  • Easy to Track the status, charts and taking the reports
  • Managing multiple distributed scrum projects
  • Import functionality using CSV file for a list of user story etc.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customizing work items is easy and flexible
  • Project Management is easy
  • Minimal administrative overhead
  • Workflows are not always intuitive
  • Native build tools not up to par
  • Source control streams concept
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