IBM DOORS Classic Training (D9) - Fundamentals

Audience: Business analysts, System Engineers and individuals responsible for authoring product requirements.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of requirements processes and terminology is useful, but not required.

No prior knowledge of IBM DOORS is required.

This course teaches analysts and engineers how to define, elaborate, organize, and manage textual and graphical requirements and requirements-related information in "IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS 9.7®". (currently referred as IBM® DOORS Classic).

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Classic is one of the main components of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). The product (still widely used in safety-critical and compliance-heavy industries.) provides requirements definition and requirements management capabilities.

This one/two-days hands-on class covers the fundamentals of authoring requirements using DOORS Classic (D9). This basic course is for: 

 Business Analysts

Systems / Sofware Engineers

Product Managers

Requirements Engineers

Languages Offered: English, German, Italian, Czech, Slovak Delivery Format: Onsite or Remote

After completing this course, you should be able to use IBM® DOORS 9, part of the IBM solution for requirements management, to:

• Understanding DOORS Classic architecture and terminology
• View and work with requirements and modules in a collaborative context
• Using attributes, filters, views, and sorting tools
• Building and analysing traceability with link modules
• Generating reports
• Managing baselines and history
• Manage requirements throughout a project lifecycle

View and work with requirements and modules in a collaborative context

Capture, define, elaborate, and edit requirements , and create hierarchically organized requirements documents

Create and manage traceability relationships between requirements

Manage requirements throughout project lifecycle

At the end of this course, the students will:

Be able to use D9 to browse, view, create, modify, and link requirement artifacts

Have knowledge in standard topics for authors

Have an overview of DOORS CLASSIC objects, attributes, modules and links

Navigate in DOORS CLASSIC

Log on to the DOORS CLASSIC client and learn basic navigation

• Navigation in DOORS Classic
• Modules and Artifacts
• Creating Module from Scratch
• Hierarchy in a module
• Adding New requirements
• Editing requirements
• Removing and deleting
• Views
• Columns
• Filters
• Predefined Attributes
• Custom Attributes
• Linking techniques
• Link Modules
• Discussions
• Gap Analysis, Traceability Matrix
• Numbering of requirements
• History
• Baselines
• Document Generation Options
• Export to WORD, Excel, ReqIF
• Exchange via Excel
• Locks
• Roles and Access
• Module and Project Area Search

Contact us to get a customized offer for your team. Upon discussion, we will learn your processes and include important elements and terms known to your team into the training program.

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