IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation (DNG) 6.0.2 continues with the overall theme of the 6.0 series while introducing some exciting new capabilities to help your organization bring control to your requirements. Areas of improvement in 6.0.2 include: Workflow for requirements End-user productivity Configuration management Bulk data import/export Administration, non-functional scalability and security Next phase in […]

But this is a Requirements Management tool – and its output is not part of my automotive/medical/avionics product… Are they pulling my leg? They might be – engineers are prone to giving their managers heart attacks – but in this case they may simply be trying to ensure your company remains in regulatory compliance. In our […]

This release adds to a very significant major series for DOORS Next Generation. We have a continued with our focus on Configuration Management, Global Configurations and usability while introducing some exciting new functions for bulk data manipulation and stronger analytics. If you are interested in reading a higher level view of how DOORS Next Generation […]

DOORS Next Generation (DNG) v6.0, which was made generally available at the end of June, was one the largest and most feature-filled releases we have ever delivered. With that shipment, we introduced for the first time configuration management of requirements as well as a new, no browser plug-in graphical editor. You can view all the details of […]

At Innovate this week, we’ve been showing several advanced features that our Requirements Management team is working on.  It’s been exciting to see the interest in the new usability, scripting, and performance features of IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation V5.0, but even more exhilarating to witness the response to Rational DOORS Next Generation with Configuration Management beta. In addition […]

It has arrived! The new fixpack for Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) 3.0.1.1 provides the first opportunity for Rational RequisitePro customers to move existing requirements into RRC and use them in Rational’s newest Requirements Definition and Management tool. The fixpack was made available on October 17th here on jazz.net. Some of you will know that in […]

Requirements solutions like Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) are a major advance in information traceability for program and project teams when compared to doing it manually in documents or spreadsheets.  RRC helps teams achieve a new level of creating, maintaining, analyzing, and reporting traceability. In RRC 3.0.1 we introduced the ability to define custom relationship types […]

(This is part of a series of blog posts where we describe enhancements and changes planned for the upcoming release of our Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution, comprising: Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer.*) The new Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) is coming soon, and we are excited about the direction we have […]

I often get asked about the best ways to get support and answers to common questions about our Jazz-based products. I also hear some people mention that they prefer open source solutions because they think that the support is better. I have worked with quite a few open source tools, as well as Jazz-based tools, over […]

We have been getting a lot of good feedback about the latest beta of Rational Requirements Composer (RRC). To share the good news more widely and to compliment Daniel’s blog post, Rational Requirements Composer Beta 2a big step forward, we produced this video tour: If you like what you see in this video, I encourage you […]