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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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A great application for project development.
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Powerful but Clunky
My day to day RTC life
IBM DOORS can handle your data referencing needs.
Open the DOORS to control your project
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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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(1-4 of 4)IBM DOORS can handle your data referencing needs.
- 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.
- 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.
- Third-party Reviews
- 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.
- It's part of CLM suite so it can be used to manage the whole lifecycle with tight integration with development module (Rational Team Concert) and quality module (Rational Quality Manager).
- Comprehensive reports and dashboards provide better visibility.
- License cost is on higher side.
- Business Requirement management
- System Requirement Management
- Requirement Traceability
- 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.
- Better organization of requirements
- Effective assignment of priorities
- When estimating the size of stories and tasks become predictable, it facilitates sprint planning.
- There is a very positive ROI when a disciplined, mature development team use use the software.
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IBM Rational Team Concert Review
- Dead Lines are clearly assigned through change requests
- Tracking the assignments (Implementation Work Tickets)
- Process
- GUI can be implemented much more efficiently with clarity. I personally feel the current IBM Rational Team Concert is little clumsy.
- Increased employee efficiency is definitely a point to be considered when all the employees are resolving the change requests in a timely manner.
- Change Requests
- Ballets
- Work Tickets
- Change Requests
- Tracking the project
- Product Usability
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- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- None
- Ballets, CRs
- Traceability