IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Reviews & Insights

IBM Rational DOORS is designed to match paradigms of requirements engineering that matched the state-of-art up to lately 2011. It is still at the top of the list since many engineers have been educated with the paradigms in mind. But as can be already drawn from the name there is a mismatch in concepts that have developed bigger since. This is a package from the broader IBM Rational software suit. This emphasizes the Rational Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System that has been extended by the DOORS eXtension Language (DLX). In the selling logic of IBM, it is superseded by IBM Jazz. For many of my customers, it is a hybrid between knowledge management and lifecycle management. It is important that it is bound against several trusted and approved engineering databases. These are sources of unmatched quality still despite contradicting facts. It is still under development and is supported by the IBM expert team. At IBM the product name is now Engineering Requirements Management DOORS. The product is cross-platform. Clients are Windows, servers are Unix. That has advantages and causes problems. The new focus in the development of the product is to be tech-savvy, enhance simplicity and overview, and grow clarity.

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 If not were superseded by completely different approaches for the target solution worlds.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.

I have used IBM Rational DOORS to manage high-level and low-level requirements as well as test procedures and the linking and traceability between them. I have used IBM Rational DOORS to run reports and wizards for export to show requirements compliance and test and requirements coverage.

IBM Rational DOORS is great for requirements management and traceability between different documents (called modules). It provides the opportunity to create custom reports that bring in information from several modules. One thing that it does not do well is collaboration since it locks either sections or an entire document at a time.

On my end, I mainly rely on IBM Rational Team Concert to collaborate with colleagues on projects. It has been easy to get notified when there is an amendment on development lifecycle.

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.

As a business analyst, it is great to have such a comprehensive tool at our disposal. During requirement gathering, planning, documenting, and implementation phases of the project this tool really helped us a lot. It was so easy to do so many multiple tasks at ease with the help of this tool such as defining processes itself was so effective.

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.

Effective Agile management system and most powerful IBM solution with a clean easy interface to get started. Easy to configure the interface security and the ability to provide data analytics on IBM Rational Team Concert is amazing and useful to manage multiple project workflow and effective capability on access and also permission management via Cloud services.

The easy agile management solution with the best ability to manage multiple development projects and even the data security is perfect and easy to offer great and profitable reports. Powerful tools for the easy import and data analytics generation functionalities and management of various services and data insights quick collection the product is impressive.

IBM Rational Team Concert is a collaborative software development, process configuration, planning, software configuration, reporting etc. The main problem the software solves is making projects more accessible and sharable. It's very useful especially for engineers.

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.

We use DOORS as a requirements repository for the product and software. We use it to track, edit, and trace requirements coverage. It's used all across the business group I'm a part of amongst many roles. It is robust and large enough for all of our products both current and legacy.

It is quite powerful and robust as a tool for all of our requirements. It is also compatible with HP ALM, our formal test management tool so that we are able to export comprehensive trace matrices for reporting purposes. However, it is a clunky, difficult, and extremely slow tool that is not well adapted to agile software development.

DOORS is our tool of choice on large programs with a large number of requirements to manage at various levels of integration.

DOORS works well for requirements management. It's better than using MS Excel especially for a large number of requirements at different levels.

IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) is widely used in my company globally for project planning, task management, incident management, source code control, resource projection etc. It is being used during the whole software development and implementation and post-production cycle. Our tooling team also integrates RTC with other tools, such as GSD, JIRA, Confluence etc. to help us improve work efficiency.

Well suited area in my team: Our production support team uses it for day to day incident management and problem management. Its built-in features fit the ITIL framework perfectly. Less appropriate area in my team:
We are changing our team structure to DevOps and our software development cycle from a traditional waterfall model to Agile. RTC is not as good as Jira in Kanban and scrum.

We currently use DOORS to manage the project requirements for one or more projects. We use the software in one department for one or two lines of service that the company offers. DOORS allows us to manage a vast amount of data with relative ease. Although the program is very powerful, it is sometimes difficult to use.

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.