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General Board / Re: Who uses EA for requirements management?
« on: May 21, 2007, 11:21:01 pm »
We tried to use EA for requirements management starting with using EA for documentation of the requirements.
It helps to structure the requirements and to trace the requirements during analysis, design and coding. Which is one requirement of our requirements management processes.
But: My experience is that it is quite cumbersome to exchange requirements with tools outside EA. E.g. initial loading of requirements from the customer documents, Loading requirements from EA to project specific documents, etc.
My understanding is that using RTF reports to extract the requirements documented in EA is very unlikely to be the way that makes you happy. You will have to go to the mdb directly, which I think is not a good practice to do. At least I don't encourage our customers using the database schemas of our products directly :-)
Beside this identification of requirements might be a problem when you don't have one master system that is used to document requirements. It is very likely having your customers using excel, word, or one of the requirements management tools.
Btw. we did not try EA's gateway to DOORS. My understanding of this tool is having DOORS as the master system and connecting EA to DOORS for tracing of the requirements along the development process within EA.
FLUX
It helps to structure the requirements and to trace the requirements during analysis, design and coding. Which is one requirement of our requirements management processes.
But: My experience is that it is quite cumbersome to exchange requirements with tools outside EA. E.g. initial loading of requirements from the customer documents, Loading requirements from EA to project specific documents, etc.
My understanding is that using RTF reports to extract the requirements documented in EA is very unlikely to be the way that makes you happy. You will have to go to the mdb directly, which I think is not a good practice to do. At least I don't encourage our customers using the database schemas of our products directly :-)
Beside this identification of requirements might be a problem when you don't have one master system that is used to document requirements. It is very likely having your customers using excel, word, or one of the requirements management tools.
Btw. we did not try EA's gateway to DOORS. My understanding of this tool is having DOORS as the master system and connecting EA to DOORS for tracing of the requirements along the development process within EA.
FLUX