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
>
> > Hi, I think I can save you a lot of time:
> >
> > http://spacestudiesinst.intranets.com/login.asp
> >
> > :) ed

Thanks for the link. The software you want to write would be very
popular, as it would apply to many industries (it would sure help the
company I work for, Sanmina). I can see that intranets isn't what
you need, so I will delete the site.

:) ed