IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) Reviews - Page 15

Love the newer diagram design feature, and that we can have users generate documents from RPE directly through DNG Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have to import images as text in order to work properly for RPE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doors offers a nice platform for tracking requirements between products and product families. I use this to track both hardware and firmware requirements for complex manufacturing products. The trace-ability and decomposition it provides are nice for piece-wise workloads. It is easy to create document baselines for different releases and track changes as the product requirements become more defined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doors program portal is like using microsoft word from 1998. There is no ability to zoom in or make text bigger. The interface to printing or even publishing a pdf is clunky and doesn't create simple documents. As a hardware electrical engineer we also like block diagrams and tables - the table and picture import functions are relatively poor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it has the ability to link the whole V model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been having huge issues with its stability. Have to re-index often and the re-indexing takes a long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Work items with flexible process flows, reviews, approvals, discussions features captured / bundled at a single place.

Easy to get the complete information of the work item with the history how it evolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The work item is a static page, built with the process flows, set of attributes as per the work item design. End user does not have option to improve the work items sometimes which is dynamic in nature.

Example in automobile industry - Vehicle development, there are few cases that the systems/ECU's (Electronic control unit) can get added up due to the market scenarios, competition, technology advancements. As per my initial requirements I might have 15 ECUs, due to market scenarios, now I might need to increase few more systems / ECUs I'm my RTC project area to accommodate the new systems, which currently the admin can only do it to enhance the attribute enumeration literals, meaning dynamic addition by the user is not available.

Other scenarios - In project planning with tasks. Each task is managed as an single work item, if I need create sub tasks under it, then I need create as child tasks linked to the main task work item as parent. If there is a option for parent task to hold sub tasks within the same work item and also provides the lifecycle status of tasks and sub tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DOORS Next Generation is intuitive and easy to learn for the end users we support and meets their needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Compatibility with different IBM clients can sometimes be limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration with the Rational Tools Suite to make Agile implementation simple with Requirements leading the way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be quirky at times when data issues occur but progress is being made in the right direction to stabilize these issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how it integrates with the rest of the Jazz Platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lack of DXL scripting that is used extensively at my organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Definitely the customization; there are many a number of ways to represent information from Rational Rhapsody/DOORs, and RPE is a good tool to produce reports that are not necessarily found out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A pretty steep learning curve, definitely not for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can link across requirements as well as see suspicions to help manage change Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool takes some time to get up to speed, and some things are not intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I live the ease and variety of tools you can use with IBM rational. I can also save to multiple formats that are helpful for variety on which format a client prefers. One of my favourite features is how I can extract data to not only save me time but increase accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the software but if I was to pick something I dislike it would have to be the numerous pull down menus. It can be hard to find thing at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.