IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Primary Use Case

Roger Trackwell - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

The way system engineering typically works is that your use cases are developed in what we call an MBSE, which is a model-based system engineering tool. Let's say your MBSE tool is MagicDraw. First, you would get and develop a system spec from your customer requirement specifications. Then your requirements engineers would further derive the system spec and set it up in your DOORS environment. Then your architects would start architecting and modeling from that system spec and develop use cases and logic flow diagrams. Then, as those use cases mature, they turn into performance requirements or constraints to help establish your sequence diagrams. The use cases aren't managed in DOORS, they're managed in an MBSE tool, but like I said, the use cases derive requirements that get put into DOORS.

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Kapil Raikar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager – Development, PD, Data Virtulization at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is the master for capturing requirements. The solution does have other use cases, however, most of our customers are using DOORS as a requirement capturing software. High-level requirements or stakeholder requirements are captured mainly in DOORS.

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DB
Senior Technical Product Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

I use IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation as a requirement management tool for software development.

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March 2024
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JT
Project System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

We use DOORS, which is a module of Rational. I've only used the DOORS product. 

I've never used the Rational Robot. I know what it does, yet I haven't used it personally.

We really use it for maintaining our requirements documents. We use it for maintaining and updating all of our requirements docs that Rational uses today. There are probably other capabilities that it does. I'm just not familiar with them. Mainly we use it for managing requirements documents so that when they do have testing, they can use those to test against.

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AK
CIO at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The primary use case of this solution and tool is to completely manage and also reuse requirements. We produce many different products which have a lot of reused requirements (for example for protocols etc.). Before we were writing big documents describing requirements and many parts of such requirement documents overlapped. We loose a lot of time reading such documents (R&D, VV, product management) so we want to make improvements.

 We use IBM Rational Doors tightly integrated with Quality Management for testing requirements- WIth such combination we slightly improve our product development process and support for this process

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HZ
Technical Sales Specialist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is a web-based tool, based on relational databases such as BP2 or MSS cloud, so it's a different approach to work with it, to work over the web. We have all functionality over the web. There's no decline for it, so it's a completely remote working tool.

We have the data on the server with a sizable use case. Now at 47 under two, it is getting better.

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MB
CEO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for system engineering. 

Typically, we receive a user requirement to produce or engineer specific equipment. From there, we derive requirements, system and sub-system specifications, and also design or create a test plan with a rationale quality manager, which is in the same suite as DOS next generation. There's full coverage provided, from building requirements to testing.

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it_user268761 - PeerSpot reviewer
Requirements Engineer at Visteon Corporation

Requirements management as part of the Jazz Platform CLM integrated tool chain. The only reason to use DNG is as a part of the IBM tool chain.

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HL
Software Engineering Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am a consultant and this is one of the products that I use for my clients. They use DOORS Next Generation mainly for requirements management, in conjunction with other tools such as RTC for change management, and RQM for quality management. Together, these are all part of the software life cycle.

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IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation
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