Collaborative web site for engineering development

I looked at the site. It looks a lot like egroups.com: a discussion
(email list) area, a place to store documents, etc.

The site that we need requires the ability to do the standard
engineering process of
- creating requirements,
- tracking requirements to design,
- tracking derived requirements to lower and lower levels of design,
- tracking design to implementation,
- tracking design to test,
- tracking test results back to requirement and design changes,
- while keeping the "whys" linked to the appropriate design.

This is called "Requirements Management" in industry. See
http://www.incose.org/tools/reqsmgmt.html for a brief introduction to
the subject.

A program commonly used for this in the aerospace industry is DOORS
(http://www2.telelogic.com/doors/index.cfm) which is a product that I
have used extensively as a project lead for an American aerospace
company. It costs about $10,000 US a seat and does not really do the
job. It is sort of a raw tool like a spreadsheet that your process
has to be adapted to including limitations. At the most basic level
these programs are database servers with user front ends. Sounds a
lot like a dhtml web site.

Sites like egroups.com, sourceforge.com, and intranets.com may be used
by development teams but it is impossible to do requirements
management at these sites and requirements management is the key to
succesfully completeing a project.

Mitchell James