I have used many applications in the past and so far my favorite tend to be low end and easy to use. Later versions of Visio are neat with the ability to export to XML, but I don't want to go down that path today.
I took a look at Blueprint's Requirements Centre via a demo on their website and it's feature rich, but the UI looks a little scary.
Even the user experience at the website was tough. I guess that's part and parcel of doing business in the enterprise. (I reckon Blueprint sales are only partly driven by the website experience anyway, so how important is it really?)
Grumble grumble... It looks like a good tool when you look at the feature list but what's the learning curve? I have had this experience with Optimal Trace recently and don't want to go through a series of sales and marketing activities just to learn a tool.
Anyone out there using Blueprint? Or OT, or anything else? Which tools suck and which ones are great?
I do IT QA for a small non-profit in a regulated environment (FDA plus other accrediting agencies), and I'm investigating RM/ALM tools myself in order to help us increase traceability, improve requirements definition consistency, etc.
ReplyDeleteI just downloaded the free version of QPack, which is no picnic, and I'm just getting started using it. It's not very intuitive so far, and the interface is quite dated. However, since it's free and since it's designed to produce FDA-friendly documentation, I'm going to continue to try it out. Once I've had a real chance to get to know the tool, I'll post here. I'll be closely following any comments and discussions of RM tools that happen here.
Thanks for keeping this blog.