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What is IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM)?

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from Requirements to Systems Design, Workflow, and Test Management. Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through Digital Thread, harness insights from automated Reporting, and confidently operate at scale laying the foundation for innovation.

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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from Requirements to Systems Design, Workflow, and Test Management. Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through Digital Thread, harness insights from automated Reporting, and confidently operate at scale laying the foundation for innovation.


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6 months

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

Prior to version 6, the requirement module was not that much mature, lacks many important features but from version 6, the introduction of global configuration management added many good things. now requirement analyst can develop their requirements and mange the trace-ability specific to any particular requirement version. Moreover graphical requirements can be easily developed now because of HTML5 builtin editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

There are couple of things which can be improved. First is the performance, if you are working in module and the size is quite large, we face lots of performance issues. also there are many issues related to arabic language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

The major problem its solves is tracing defects or any item back to original requirement. This feature helps a lot in figuring out the impact analysis as well as trace-ability matrices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Thank you for sharing your positive experience. We apologize for the performance and language issues you've encountered. Our team is actively addressing these concerns to ensure a smoother user experience. Your input is appreciated as we strive to make continuous improvements.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

I consider quick search the strongest point in DOORS.

Traceability could be a powerful feature whether it is used taking care about complexity (several artifacts related to each other may cause unnecessary complexity). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

As much as you populate DOORS with artifacts, after a period of time, could be difficult you find what information you are looking for. Depending how the Project Areas are organized in your Company, navegability can be tiring. For example:

- When you want to link an artifact to another, a window is opened and you have to navigate through entire structure of folders to find the artifact you are looking for.

- Many colleagues of mine comment about there is no baseline per artifact, just on full Project Area. Most part of time, you wish to get a snapshot of only one artifact.

- Few options to customize the export format (.pdf or .doc).

- When you have to export, if the artifact contains inserted artifacts, you have to expand all of them to assure the document exported will contain every information you need. In some cases, when you have more than two levels of traceability, it is not possible to export the third level, because DOORS only expand until the second level. So, you cannot to export in these cases.

- When you link an artifact to another, DOORS does not check if that relation already exists. So, in the tab on the right, you can observe several duplicated links.

- In the folder structure, would be possible you order by drag and drop. Today we have an alphabetic order.

- In an agile environment, I think DOORS is loosing visibility because it is a tool with a lot of features that can generate a complexity. Normally, in an agile context Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next:

In my opinion, in the moment a Company decide to adopt DOORS, it should make an exhaustive PoC conduced by an experient professional that already had implemented this solution in other Organizations, like an user, not like a vendor. It allows to validate specific situations that happen in day by day.

Commonly, PoCs to sell software products simulate best scenarios that does not happen in real world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the Company where I work, we started an Agile Transformation in 2014. We purchased the IBM suite tool to implement RTC, RDNG and RQM. We had thought until last year that IBM CLM could help the teams get their day by day faster. Although we have identified a negative reposition of this suite compared with others (such as Atlassian, CA...) mainly related to usability and complexity of use.

It is motivating a non use by our staff, whose have chosen alternative solutions (even phisycal kanban, for example).

Finally, today we are not perceiving a real benefit with DOORS, just the use by internal policy, not because promotes more productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Thank you for sharing your experience with DOORS. We understand the challenges you have faced with finding information, customizing export formats, and navigating through the folder structure. We have been improving the tool and working to provide a better experience.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

Reduced the time taken to detect the causes of bugs by 99%. Reduced system design time by more than 70%. Accelerated the time to market and the rate of innovation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

There should be client API for RDNG as well so that we may do customization like we do in RTC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Accelerated the time to market and the rate of innovation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

Increased time to market and customer satisfaction. Reduced the time taken to detect the causes of bugs by 99%. Reduced system design time by more than 70%. Accelerated the time to market and the rate of innovation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

We're glad to hear that IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next has helped in reducing the time to detect bugs and accelerating time to market and innovation.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

This software is an industry standard and allows for user requirement tracking in one interface with customers. It allows for communicating between a large number of users in different companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

The user interface is not intuitive and looks old. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

Requirements tracking with customers and for programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

It's great to hear that IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next is helping with requirements tracking. We're committed to continuously improving our software to better meet your needs.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

The following features

1. User-friendly GUI

2. Customisable dashboard and ability to manage notifications

3. Tagging and traceability -- map requirements even across different modules, documents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

If we do not enable filter option - loads of artefacts seen. Maybe a feature in which only the recently used artefacts are seen and the others hidden would be good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next:

It's a tool that mostly offers what it promises. With a bit of time/training, one can pick up the more advanced features and use it in the workplace.

Customisable GUI and notifications is a definite plus, you only see what you need to and nothing else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business Partner - used Doors NG to make a demo for a client. Was easy to pick up the tool and build a demo within days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

We're glad to hear that you find our user-friendly GUI and customizable dashboard helpful. We appreciate your feedback on the filter option and will consider it for future improvements.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

It is a versatile tool where I can plan and create almost any requirements structure I need in an easy way and fast. The traceability feature is really great, you can configure it to fit your project necesities with no problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

It is really difficulty to use some features like OSLC. The server performance over a distributed environment not always is good. When you don't use a default template it is not easy to create reports. The user interface scares some no tecnical users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next:

Migrating from other tools must be planned in advance, not always it can be done in an easy way. There are a lot of ways to structure the requirements in it. Take your time on testing them and getting the drawbacks and advantages from each of them. Avoid to import documents in word as they are. Use the attributes and tags, it is a lot easier to query things with them. Create module templates with tittles that are read-only and shared among all documents (reuse option). Create a group to maintain the project structure apart from the admin group. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is easy to relate the business knowledge what helps a lot the impact study and knowledge sharing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

We're glad to hear that you find IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next versatile and easy.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

Its very user friendly tool and having collaboration with test and requirement management tool.

Java API's are available for writing extensions that makes RTC more reliable tool in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

Some features in rtc can be achieved only through rtc eclipse client.

In SCM part very limited options available at web client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Workflow Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Defect Management, Change Management and Version controlling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

I've dabbled a bit with project development and I wouldn't say you need a lot of expertise as you can easily set it up as long as you have a deep deep understanding of both requirements management and the tool or know someone who does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

One huge improvement would be to have better support for distributed teams. The Rational DOORS client is terribly slow if you are not on-site with the server. Also, a better method of exchanging data between Rational DOORS servers or better yet a synchronisation method would be perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to use DOORS to help us with our project management by enabling team togetherness and being able to collaborate together so we can get the tasks done at hand quickly and in an organised manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Thank you for sharing your experience with IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

RDNG 6.0.3 has great features to manage requirements, status (work flow enabled) of each requirement is much handy for the teams.

It eases the effort with product line engineering, managing variants across products and enabling reuse of requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

1. Thoughts behind components could have been better with access control, currently access control is at project level.

2. There are few performance issues with linking artifacts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next:

It is a very good tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralized database for requirements management. It supports for reuse artifacts across products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Thank you for sharing your positive experience. We appreciate your feedback. We're pleased to hear that the tool is benefiting you with centralized database for requirements management and artifact reuse.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

The facility for use and praticity for management of tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

Cost of license is more expensive what rational ClearCase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Workflow Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Control of versions and monitoring the projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.