Milan SchwarzkopfSenior Project Manager| Milan SchwarzkopfPrague 8, Czechia
I am asked to recommend a requirements management tool to my customer. I have a first set of expectations on this tool. Do you have an idea where can I find a tools comparison tables / whitepapers / etc. ? Any other recommendation ?
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Darrell MarkhamSr. IT Project Manager| Tyler TechnologiesBrentwood, Ca, United States
Have you looked at Rational RequisitePro from IBM? I have heard good things about it and I am scheduled to learn how to use it after the first of the year. Saving Changes...
Rational RequisitePro is a very expensive tool designed for HARD-CORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS. Also, this tools adds to the overhead costs of an IT organization and requires a major budgetary commitment, culture change, and training/consulting help. I would give the client a number of options based on their very specific needs. Saving Changes...
Prabhas SinhaDirector - Product Management| CAHyderabad, India
Do remember that it is not just a requirements management tool that this customer might be looking for. He would definitely need visibility w.r.t Bi-directional Traceability and tight integration with Test Management, Defect Management and Change Management.
Nevertheless, if it is just Requirements Management then look at DOORS (by Telelogic), they are the leaders.
There are quite many integrated solutions available too. Saving Changes...
In addition to DOORS, it's worth looking at SteelCase. The original company began in Ireland and was recently purchased by Computer Associates. Having done a very recent comparision of Software Req tools on the marketplace I found their tool to have excellent functionality for the price when compared to that of Rational. It was also lower on the complexity scale.
Despite that, having looked at over 10 different software packages, we elected to continue using our current tools/methods as we did not feel any single package was available at the right price and was a must have at this point. We have opted to continue with our current processes of using a standard MS Word template with supporting docs in Visio/Poseidon or HTML mockups with a requirements section per page. I did compile a spreadsheet with the various tools available. As it's not 'polished' enough to post to this forum and frankly I don't the time to do so, if you would to view it, send me an email. - [email protected] Saving Changes...
MS Office 2003 comes with InfoPath I believe. It's not a bad tool for creating templates to track requirements and allows you to store them in a database for easier searching and reporting. We tried it at our company for a while, and I thought it was good but we had enough complaints about usability so we're just going back to Word templates. Saving Changes...
Milan SchwarzkopfSenior Project Manager| Milan SchwarzkopfPrague 8, Czechia
The customer has a preference to team track from LBMS. Any experience with this ?
I am willing to propose them also JIRA, as I have a positive experience from previous project. Saving Changes...
Hi Milan. I wonder if you have prepared an User Requirements document agreed to by the client, for this assignment. You would then have something concrete to compare various packages against using a Gap Analysis. Makes the choice a lot clearer and credible.
While most people now develop requirements for software development (hence the requirement for the tool), it often gets overlooked when looking for tools to assist with software development and project management etc, and other non development projects. Saving Changes...
