IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) Reviews - Page 7

This is an amazing tool to define requirements clearly and manage them. As project proceeds requirements can change and this helps keeping track of it.It is also really quick and responsive. DOORS made my work a lot easier when I was working as a requirement engineer for a project I was involved in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI looks a bit old fashioned. Could be improved.Also, sometimes it is a bit heavy on server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Variant management , audit history and webbased application features are some of them that our users love about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Read access issues and complexity of reviews within the tool is what hesitates us to use the tool to a complete extent. We also wish there was some kind of white paper/guidance on how change drivers work / should work in DNG in good detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The configuration management capabilities allowing our quicker adoption of product line concepts. The ease of approachablity for folks who have historically developed and managed requirements in Word/Excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Perhaps out of ignorance, it is unclear how to utilize multiple components in a DNG construct. If initially coming from older DNG versions, all requirements are in a single component and must be refactored to take advantage of selective change control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like how easy it is to migrate the data from Doors into Doors Next as well as the very much updated interface (bearing in mind that Doors Next is not just an new and improved Doors). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not a whole lot I don't like about it. It is the best RM tool I have ever used Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linking capabilities

Commenting capabilities

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Compare collection capabilities

Version control

Suspicion Links Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unable to generate reports on suspect links or changes made after baselines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The graphical interface of the tool and all the menus proposed. I think it`s the most powerful tool for tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything. Some features may be added but it`s OK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Natural integration with the way our team works in a modern engineering envrionment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On-premise requirements are sometimes necessary so it becomes difficult with a cloud product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In our organization business analysts and systems analyst are using this module to develop their requirement artifacts. We have the complete IBM CLM suite so that other departments like development and QA use these requirement to develop and test the application. This end to end traceability and easy collaboration across the lifecylce help us a lot.

There are a couple of areas where IBM Rational DOORS is quite strong. First, it is part of the IBM CLM solution so the artifacts developed in this module can be easily available for other functions like development and QA. They can link with their stories and test cases and team leads and managers can use traceability matrix to find out where there are gaps in coverage.

Comprehensive configuration management functionality (concept of multiple streams and global configuration) is available, which can be helpful if you need to implement configuration management scenarios for your product or project. For example, a certain version of a requirement can be linked with one story and another version of same requirement can be linked with another story. This is the unique feature which other current tools in the market don't provide.

It's highly customizable so you can configure the project areas based on your need. You can have your own requirement types, and you can define templates to speed up the process. Comprehensive review functionality is there as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireframes are quite basic. If you need intuitive and interactive wireframes to elaborate the requirements. you probably need to define outside the tool and then upload as image.

ER (define data dictionaries) modeling is not there.

Use case modeling is quite basic. You can visualize the use case and actors relation but the tool does not enforce the rules.

Does not support offline work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Significant functionality out of the box with the ability to configure and automate with API exposure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficult for new users to navigate, can be overwhelmed and find it difficult to understand what they need to do. For better or worse, many users don't feel like they need training, but they do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ease of use is the best feature. the latest version offers real good UI features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its a little too bland. use work center type of UI to make it look better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.