Excellent team suite to support a compliant software development lifecycle
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We use SpiraTeam in the whole organization in our German office as well as in our US subsidiary. We are using SpiraTeam for requirements management, test planning, and execution as well as incident tracking. As a company providing customized software development for the health care industry we are in a strongly regulated marked (FDA, IVD) and need a solid tool with a full audit trail, versioning, and multi-user environment as well as provide online access to our clients.
Pros
- Very easy to use.
- Entire collaboration suite for the software development lifecycle.
- Configurable to particular project needs.
Cons
- Reporting could be made a bit easier.
- Some functions are not always absolutely intuitive.
- Document baselining can be tricky.
- Some configuration can only be done in the database and is not explained as by the books.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is easy to define structures and documentation "modules". This allows for a workgroup-oriented approach and supports SCRUM. However, in the medical device market SCRUM does not work well for documentation. Therefore the modularized approach on the requirements and testing side supports sprint development, while the depth of documentation needed for compliance may not be "ready" and can be completed later.
