Marketing description

Are you looking for effective ways to control your requirements, improve staff efficiency and reduce project costs and delivery time? IBM Rational DOORS software can help you achieve your requirements management goals by enabling your teams to focus on building what your business and customers really need, not waste time and effort on unnecessary/manual tasks and rework.
Rational DOORS allows you to capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to information and demonstrate compliance to regulations and standards. DOORS has proven itself on some of the most challenging projects and helped organizations standardize and manage their requirements process more efficiently.
Successful management of requirements starts by documenting them in a way that's easy to interpret and navigate. The hierarchical organization of requirements in the Rational DOORS interface helps make it easier to locate information within the database. An easily accessible document-style list of requirements shows each individual requirement in context, while a convenient navigation tree reveals the structure of the information set. A tabular view of the requirements helps you view and assign additional information against them within an unlimited number of your own attributes.
Requirements traceability is key to demonstrating conformance and compliance, and facilitating impact analysis of requirement changes. Traceability links within Rational DOORS software can be easily traversed—simply click on the link indicator displayed beside a requirement, select the link you want to follow, and the Rational DOORS application can traverse the link to the related requirement.
Creating links can be as easy as dragging and dropping between two requirements. A new link can be created from the source to the target requirement with outgoing and incoming link indicators displayed beside the relevant requirements.
With DOORS software, you can create filters to analyze requirements and see that traceability is complete. For example, using a filter, you can help quickly identify user requirements that are not linked to system requirements - these represent customer needs that are not satisfied by the technical specification. The DOORS solution also supports external links: Requirements can be associated with information outside of the DOORS environment. For instance, dragging a link from a requirement in the DOORS software into a word processing document can create a functional link to the requirement.

Key selling points

• Facilitate delivery of the high-quality systems and software your customers need
• Proactive change notification helps ensure that changes are not missed and that their impact can be thoroughly analyzed
• Help improve collaboration by providing greater visibility of the project goals
• Integration with popular design, development and test environments helps to provide comprehensive lifecycle traceability
• Support contract conformance and regulatory compliance
• Respond to changing customer needs more effectively and with more control

Product features

• Intuitive, scalable requirements management
  Successful management of requirements starts by documenting them in a way that's easy to interpret and navigate. The hierarchical organization of requirements in the Rational DOORS interface helps make it easier to locate information within the database. An easily accessible document-style list of requirements shows each individual requirement in context, while a convenient navigation tree reveals the structure of the information set. A tabular view of the requirements helps you view and assign additional information against them within an unlimited number of your own attributes.
• Comprehensive traceability
  Requirements traceability is key to demonstrating conformance and compliance, and facilitating impact analysis of requirement changes. Traceability links within Rational DOORS software can be easily traversed - simply click on the link indicator displayed beside a requirement, select the link you want to follow, and the Rational DOORS application can traverse the link to the related requirement. Creating links can be as easy as dragging and dropping between two requirements. A new link can be created from the source to the target requirement with outgoing and incoming link indicators displayed beside the relevant requirements. With DOORS software, you can create filters to analyze requirements and see that traceability is complete. For example, using a filter, you can help quickly identify user requirements that are not linked to system requirements - these represent customer needs that are not satisfied by the technical specification. The DOORS solution also supports external links: Requirements can be associated with information outside of the DOORS environment. For instance, dragging a link from a requirement in the DOORS software into a word processing document can create a functional link to the requirement.
• Change management and impact analysis
  Requirements change. But change should be controlled because it can impact the project, resulting in additional demands on resources, time and budget. IBM Rational DOORS is integrated with IBM Rational Change, an enterprise change management solution that can provide configurable workflow for review, approval and application of change requests. If you require a simpler, predefined requirements change control process, DOORS software also provides out-of-the-box change management capability. Requirements changes may impact linked requirements, designs and tests. The Rational DOORS solution can provide automatic proactive notification of such changes by graphically indicating that links to changed objects require investigation, supporting thorough impact analysis.
• Collaborative requirements management environment
  Rational DOORS software allows stakeholders from many disciplines to contribute to the requirements process. Stakeholders are involved with requirements capture, analysis, review and impact analysis for project changes. Requirements management is a discipline that lives throughout a project lifetime and DOORS software offers a key capability to allow stakeholders to manage an audit trail from development back to the requirements that are being met. The DOORS platform also has a web interface for users who need instant access to requirements information without the need to perform local installations of software. For example, testers can quickly review and edit requirement attributes from the web to indicate that particular requirements have been verified.