Almost nobody buys these tools for fun: they buy them because they have to demonstrate that every requirement is implemented and tested, and be able to show it. That showing has a name and a format: the requirements traceability matrix, and it is the first thing an auditor asks for. IBM lists ASPICE, ISO 26262 and DO-178C among the standards its requirements management helps meet, and that is the ground: automotive, aerospace, rail, defence and medical devices. We deliver the thirteen official courses in the family.
About the names, because they mislead: IBM renamed Rational to IBM Engineering and the products are the same. DOORS Next Generation is now Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next; Rational Quality Manager is Engineering Test Management; Rational Team Concert is Engineering Workflow Management. Both names appear here so nobody gets lost.
Online, classroom or at your premises, in closed groups of four to ten people, with Credly badges. Tell us which release you run when you ask for dates.
The ideal path
Almost everyone arrives here through requirements, so that is where the path starts. If you work with DOORS Next — the web version — the DOORS Next course (ODC8005G) is the course, and one day leaves you handling the product. If yours is classic DOORS, the desktop one, the order is DOORS foundation (QN101G) to use it, database administration (QN201G) to administer the database and DXL programming (QN301G) when automation with DXL is needed.
From there, the suite is covered by what you have to demonstrate: Engineering Test Management (ODC8015G) if testing and coverage have to be shown, the development course (ODC8040G) if the team develops on the platform, and Jazz Team Server administration (WS605G) if somebody has to answer for the server.
By level
Beginner. DOORS foundation (QN101G) and QN164G for classic DOORS, the DOORS Next course (ODC8005G) for DOORS Next, and the development course (ODC8040G) for anyone about to develop on the platform.
Intermediate. database administration (QN201G) to administer the DOORS database, Engineering Test Management (ODC8015G) for test management, and the four Engineering Workflow Management administration courses by role: ODC8050G for agile, ODC8055G for configuration management, ODC8060G with SAFe and ODC8065G to define the process.
Expert. DXL programming (QN301G) to program DOORS in DXL, Jazz Team Server administration (WS605G) to administer the Jazz Team Server holding the whole suite up, and Rhapsody with SysML (QQ144G) for model-based systems engineering with SysML and Rhapsody.
Requirements, testing and traceability
The reason these tools get bought together is traceability: being able to answer “is this requirement implemented and tested?” without opening five places. the DOORS Next course (ODC8005G) builds the requirements and their links, Engineering Test Management (ODC8015G) connects them to test cases and defects, and Rhapsody with SysML (QQ144G) brings them into the system model over OSLC for coverage and impact analysis.
If what you need is to produce a requirements traceability matrix in the format a customer or a standard demands, that is worked in DXL programming (QN301G) with DXL on classic DOORS, and in the DOORS Next course (ODC8005G) through the traceability relationships in DOORS Next.
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