IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next Features

Provides a wiki to keep useful product documentation.

Provides a place for product users to interact and ask questions.

Provides a medium for users to make suggestions for the product.

Calculate NPS of customers

Allows key stakeholders to relay requirements to product or service development teams and other interested parties.

Foster intra-company collaboration between teams working on product or service development.

Measures the amount of work an employee can handle in a sprint.

Ranks the priority of a task.

provides a Kanban board to visualize tasks.

Enables the creation of custom workflows to facilitate various processes.

Predicts a products release based on the workflow.

Estimate or forecast of a future scenario based on the study of present trends

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Tracks the amount of time spent on a task.

Measures the progress of tasks within a product workflow.

Measures the cost of tasks and enables the allocation of budget to different projects.

Provides data on employee performance for gamification.

Reporting on how each user, task or process has advanced since its initiation

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Monitor task progress and planned accomplishments to better manage project status

Track the status and progress of tasks

Monitor the progress of projects from start to finish

Deliniate minimum requirements for a new product or service.

Consolidate all requirements information and progress to a central location.

Track each requirement over its lifetime, including creation, progress, and modifications.

Create, adjust, and test requirements automatically.

Checking for errors to prevent quality issues and maintain the integrity of the product/service as per set standards

Ensures all application changes are tracked and can be rolled back if needed.

Provides tools to capture, organize, and track evolving project requirements throughout the development cycle.

Planning, scheduling, and overseeing the release of software or system changes into a live or production environment

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Identify and respond to unexpected problems or failures (ie. "negative events")

Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions

Manage the end-to-end lifecycle, from initial setup/development to deployment and maintenance

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Create, save, and store files

Gather, organize, share, and analyze knowledge in terms of resources, documents, and people skills

Planning out the structure and duration of repetitive intervals of time dedicated to specific tasks during the development cycle

Plan and coordinate all the resources, costs and time needed to execute assignments

Tracks metrics and analytics that provide insights into development velocity, code quality, and release cadence

Facilitates team collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Provides Agile boards, Gantt charts, or Kanban workflows to plan sprints, assign tasks, and monitor progress.

Evaluates the breadth and depth of integration with common software development and project management ecosystems.

Assesses whether the product supports configurable, structured attributes for each requirement beyond free-text descriptions.

Assesses the product's ability to organize requirements into multi-level structures for large and complex projects.

Assesses support for safety-critical and regulated engineering industries through templates, workflows, or compliance accelerators.

Assesses the completeness and integrity of the change history for audit and regulatory compliance purposes.

Evaluates the product's ability to automatically flag traceability links that may be invalidated by upstream requirement changes.

Assesses whether the product enables structured stakeholder review and sign-off processes with configurable workflow steps.

Assesses the granularity of permission management across teams and stakeholder roles.

Assesses whether the product can link requirements to downstream artifacts in both forward and backward directions.

Assesses whether the product can predict and communicate the scope of change impact across linked artifacts.

Assesses whether the product can automatically generate visual matrices showing which requirements are covered by tests, risks, or designs.

Assesses whether stable requirement states can be locked for comparison and compliance purposes.

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Receive system updates as soon as any changes are made

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Manage and track all stages of a product lifecycle, from its conception, design, development, and deployment

Manage and track all internal and external communication conducted via calls, email, text, or chat

Import and export data to and from software applications

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Notifications that are delivered to users as soon as an event occurs

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Process of planning, scheduling and executing the optimal and effective use of human capital across projects

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Leave comments and notes on documents for others to view

Customize data fields to support various needs and use cases

Track and manage schedules and meetings via an integrated calendar

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Track and manage the scheduling of tasks

Enables creation, management, and tracking of product requirements & features during product production/development

Plan and coordinate all the resources, costs and time needed to execute assignments

An @mention is a way to tag or notify a specific person about a message/post

Ability to handle several projects simultaneously

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Organize and schedule projects

Allow users to access multiple services after entering their login credentials once

Store and organize documents in a centralized system

A timeline for taking a project live that outlines what features should be operational at the go-live date

Visualize and analyze customer experience across all touchpoints and channels

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Visual representation of project's schedule, sequence and duration of tasks, benchmarks and dependencies

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Manage, store and organize emails within the system or via third-party apps

A digital list of items that need to be completed

Gauge satisfaction and receive information for improvement and success

Specify or track the date/time a project, task, etc., is due for completion

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Identifying desired outcomes and important milestones and creating a plan on how to achieve them

Create, collect, discuss, improve, and evaluate insights or alternative thinking before starting projects

Receive data and information in real time

Iterative project Management approach that involves technologies such as Kanban, Scrum, XP, APF, XPM and more

Manage a detailed schedule of a product plan

Create, save, and store files

Protect sensitive data for digital privacy

Pre-designed project plans that can be customized

Collecting, analyzing, and utilizing feedback from users or customers to improve a product or service

Attach digital tags to documents and assets for identification, search, or monitoring purposes

Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc.

Allow guests to view the software and interact with users

Graphical representation of data or processes

Monitor and track bugs and issues in the system.

Synchronizing data between two or more devices/systems and automatically updating changes to maintain consistency

Iterative project Management approach that involves technologies such as Kanban, Scrum, XP, APF, XPM and more

Import and export data to and from software applications

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Define network parameters and threshold settings to monitor network health and take necessary precautions

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Receive data and information in real time

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Detects conflicts in the latest version when multiple users are editing a file at the same time

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

For the intention to be used by developers

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Store and organize documents in a centralized system

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Process of tracking logged defects (errors) in a product or service to create new versions to fix the error

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location

Graphical representation of data

Create, save, and store files

Define the exact requirements needed by all stakeholders in the requirements process

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Manage the end-to-end lifecycle, from initial setup/development to deployment and maintenance

Store and organize documents in a centralized system

Manage and track all internal and external communication conducted via calls, email, text, or chat

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Track, manage and store the applications of potential future members, customers or candidates

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Receive data and information in real time

Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Leave comments and notes on documents for others to view

Customize data fields to support various needs and use cases

Track the status and progress of tasks

Estimate or forecast of a future scenario based on the study of present trends

Receive system updates as soon as any changes are made

Monitor and track bugs and issues in the system.

Create, manage, or update project workflows.

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Monitor the progress of projects from start to finish

A digital list of items that need to be completed

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Creation, administration, and evaluation of assessments or tests

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions

Configure existing workflows to meet your organization's needs

Iterative project Management approach that involves technologies such as Kanban, Scrum, XP, APF, XPM and more

Alter the layout and content of reports

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Create budgets based on historical data and future projections

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc.

An @mention is a way to tag or notify a specific person about a message/post

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Reporting on how each user, task or process has advanced since its initiation

Organize and schedule projects

Ability to handle several projects simultaneously

Import and export data to and from software applications