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M2: Analysis of Comparable Project Planning/Management Offerings

M2 Section Summary: Requirements Management

Copyright (c) 2000 Jim Salmons and Frank Castellucci
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Associated project: Specification Writing for Web-based Project Planning Software

Project URL: http://sohodojo.com/techsig/project-planning-project.html

sXc Project detail: http://sourcexchange.com/ProjectDetail?projectID=24 (SourceXchange is out of business.)

Project coordination: Sohodojo

Sponsors: Position open

Sponsors (M1-3): Opendesk.com and Collab.Net

Core Team: Jim Salmons and Frank Castellucci

1 Introduction

This document aggregates the feature and underlying model analyses of comparable products and services in the domain of the project specification requirements. During the comparables analysis phase, nine product and service offerings were examined.

1.1 Format and Key to Abbreviations

Each of fourteen sections of the Comparables Analysis Data Capture Outline has a Section Summary file such as this one. Section 1 of each data collection form is an Introduction statement explaining the project and the assessment. Section 16 is a reviewer profile. Since all data was produced by the core project team members, section 16 does not have a summary section.

In a Section Summary file, we aggregate the analysis data within each subsection of the raw data collection forms. Each data point from the raw assessment outlines is presented in the following alphabetical order and prefixed with the following identifying abbreviations:

Note: The HTML versions of the deliverable use bullet lists with more readable prefix identifiers than the two-character source identifier used in the text versions.

The aggregated section data in each Section Summary file is the last section of the file. In addition to the aggregated data, each summary file has an optional section for the capture of summary insights or comments.

1.2 Section Summary Insights and/or Comments

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9 Requirements Management

9.1 Documentation Controls

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  Does not address this function.

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  The Documents storage system provides change notification and permission-based restricted access. But there are no active change management.

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  The Goal/Subgoal composition of ManagePro maps nicely to the development and management of requirements-oriented data within a project. To the extent that data within the ManagePro database can be 'source data' in the requirements document(s) to be produced, the Archive feature provides back-up and a snapshot versioning capability for requirements data. The 'Show to' and 'Editors' attributes for Goal/Subgoal/To-Do elements provides control of read/write access to requirements data. When external documents are required to capture or present requirements data, the file attachment facility can be used.

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  Functionality not support in tool.

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  Functionality does not exist per se, although the user private files are backed up.

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  While a Documentation Manager function has recently been added to SourceForge, there is no relationship (other than subjectively defined by the project team) to requirements engineering.

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  While WebProject provides documentation management for the web presentation of the company or project, it is not specific to managing Requirement Engineering documentation as there is no explicit function or methodology in the software.

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  See section 6.3 for comments about revision controls. When the Information Unit features are used for requirements management, the version control features would be very helpful.

9.2 Relationship to Task Management

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  Does not address this function.

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  Since the 'data cloud of what gets done by whom' is a composition of 'Goal/Subgoal/To-Do' elements, requirements-oriented data is modeled, captured and maintained simply as another 'branch' of Goal/Subgoal data within the database.

  ManagePro has a 'paste linked item' feature that allows a subgoal elements to 'live' within an arbitrary logical decomposition within the Goal hierarchy while having a 'mirrored image' of that item show up in other places within the Goal hierarchy. This feature can be very helpful for creating 'Requirements Satisfaction' views which present Goal data in the context of their Requirements.

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  Functionality not support in tool.

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  Functionality does not exist.

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  Functionality does not exist.

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  None explicitly. However, if you were to create a Whiteboard Requirements hierarchy, the basic Task associations would be available. So the Requirements Management portion of your project would have the same features are other portions of a Project.

9.3 Implementation Specific Rules

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  Does not address this function.

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  As before with proposal-management related rules, customizations which implement User's refinement of the default ManagePro configuration apply to the entire database open at the time. You cannot have multiple projects open in ManagePro that implement project-specific customizations.

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  Functionality not support in tool.

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  Functionality does not exist.

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  Functionality does not exist.

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  No.

9.4 Business Processing Rules

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  Does not address this function.

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  As before with proposal-management related rules, customizations which implement User's refinement of the default ManagePro configuration apply to the entire database open at the time. You cannot have multiple projects open in ManagePro that implement project-specific business rule customizations.

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  Functionality not support in tool.

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  Not applicable.

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  Functionality does not exist.

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  Functionality does not exist.

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  No.

9.5 Reviewer Comments

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  None

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  None

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  None

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  None

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  None

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  None

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  None

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  None

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  None

DOCUMENT HISTORY

Version 0.9 - Draft
Version 1.0 - Final

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