Hello,
I'm be ask by higher management to put together a presentation about DOORS and what the benefits of using the tools are. One thing they are looking for is what the differences between DOORS and other req. management systems pros/cons. I only have experience using DOORS, I was wondering if anyone has any comparisons of req. management tools on the market. I was hoping to find a sale/marketing comparison through IBM so far no luck.
Thank you,
Jim
SystemAdmin - Tue Apr 17 08:47:50 EDT 2012 |
Re: DOORS vs other Req. Management systems????
Mathias Mamsch - Tue Apr 17 09:43:57 EDT 2012
Well there are other requirement management systems out there, which are much more "modern" than DOORS 9.3, e.g. Polarion requirements which matured alot during the last years. They already implement features, that you will only find in DOORS Next Gen or not find in DOORS and have a better focus on document generation and implement stuff like "Microsoft Office Roundtrips" where you can export and reimport to MS Office. However they have not been on the market for so long, so the market share is not so high. For management people a company like IBM brings some kind of assurance that "somehow it will work", smaller companies might not have that kind of trust. Also they might be not so configurable as DOORS, it really depends on the details.
So the question regarding the use cases for the Requirements Engineering and Requirements Management and also the priorities for the management are the question here, however that is not a DXL specific question, so you might move that thread to the general DOORS forum. The general strategy for evaluating tools would be to invite other companies for demonstrations of the RE/RM tools.
Regards, Mathias
Mathias Mamsch, IT-QBase GmbH, Consultant for Requirement Engineering and D00RS
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