IBM DOORS Reviews

The features that I've found most valuable are organization, trace, connection to other products via external links, and DXL.

It helps us to manage and track requirements for complex products. This allows for quick and easy safety certification.

It needs word processing captioning as well as references within a module.

I've used it for 12 years.

We had no issues with deployment.

There have been no issues with stability.

It has scaled for our needs.

Customer services is great.

Technical support is also great.

We used Interleaf and other tools, but they don't allow for easily readable trace and control.

The initial setup was easy. It's easy to provide access to users.

We implemented it in-house, though it does require basic knowledge of the tool.

We've found that floating licenses work best.

Don't use Citrix or a virtual environment to implement a global solutions. It causes problems when linking between tools.

• Traceability
• VRTMs

Requirements development, and doing everything from functional requirements to system requirements, means we can verify that there are no orphan or childless requirements, which ensure full traceability in a short amount of time using the available tools.

I've used it for six years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

8/10.

8/10.

No previous solution was used.

It was very straightforward.

It was done in-house.

It's better if your partners use the same tool, which makes for better sharing of files and artefacts.

I use DOORS for capturing a system requirement and subsystem requirement. I also use it for recording a system of architecture.

The most valuable features include:

• Traceability (the ability to link between different items)
• Configuration Management (ability to baseline things and create new views)
• User Access (to control who does what to different items)

They have recently upgraded the product. And, it is definitely more user-friendly. It was really clunky to use previously. It might not be very fancy, but it always gets the job done. 

I think it would be nice if there was better integration with other tools, particularly diagrammatic tools so that you can do things like enterprise architecture. 

It is very expensive. But, it depends on the project. The project must warrant the expense paid.

The product was being used for developing and tracking new requirements for a system we were working on. There wasn't one specific feature that comes to mind, as it was approximately 12 months ago that I was using the product to develop requirements.

The product was used to better track and structure requirements we were developing for a new product that was to be integrated into an existing system with its own requirements. It was a way for us to track new requirements and its impact on existing ones.

None comes to mind right now. I know that the group was discussing the movement towards model-based systems engineering where they were looking into alternate products that allows the integration of requirements, system diagrams, etc. all in one tool.

I used it last year, for one year.

No issues encountered,

No issues encountered,

I never had to use customer service.

I never had to use tech support,.

I am within the automotive electronics industry. The requirements management widely used in my field for change management is the key to delivering your product without any hitches. It is hard to manage requirements in a big project, therefore having a traceability feature is great.

Traceability on requirements for a huge project in an organization is a big gain.

• Traceability
• The ability to use any type of document in any format.

These features make our job easier in requirements management.  

I would like to see them improve in agile management the Scrum/Kanban Board to work with overseas team members.