Managing product lines - best practises

[michakraus]

At our company we have 5 product lines which split into say 4 products each which themselves consist of several components.
Each product has several releases per year (including fixes).
No I am dreaming of using EA as our only documentation source, I want to track requirements changes and their implementations. So I definitely need versioning.
Is it possible in EA? Has anybody tried putting it together? Would I keep seperate models? The task seems to be very complex, but are there best practises for that?

Thanks,
Michael

[thomaskilian]

Michael,
I likely can't give you the correct answer. Just a few notes:
- This has been discussed in this forum quite often. Although it's a PITA to search the forum it might be worth while.
- Versionining is definitely possible with EA. There are also some caveats you might get aware of be searching the forum and reading the resources on EA's site.
- Requirements tracking is also possible with EA - to a certain extend. If, as in your case, there are multiple products/lines then you will likely find the limits of EA's requirements management capabilities soon. You should try to find out more about Raquest (an EA extension) or an (expensive) RM tool.

[peter.zrnko]

Consider also using the Audit functionality of EA corporate edition.