The Daily WTF

Managing requirements for even a simple project is a nightmare. As projects get more complicated, “requirements management” mutates into “systems engineering”. The requirements for, say, an entire IT migration, or an automobile, or a lunar lander turn into a tree of requirements, where each implementation step is traced back to an overall master requirement at the root of the tree. Five to one, your average project isn’t this complicated, but you don’t want to ship a product missing features and have to say “it slipped my mind”.

Enter a certain large vendor’s Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS). Doors allows the requirements for a large, complicated product, to be organized into objects which are further organized into modules, where each object is a requirement, paragraph, section, table, figure, or anything that explains the nature of requirements.

Greg L‘s team adopted DOORS for managing their requirements.

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