It seems I've riled a Rational salesrep

re: It seems I've riled a Rational salesrep

Chris Menegay — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:52:00 GMT

Borland's implementation seemed a bit weak IMO. I'm hoping that someone writes a lightweight RM tool. To be honest, very few companies I have done work with use a formal RM tool. Probably due to cost and training.

re: It seems I've riled a Rational salesrep

Peter Munnings — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:31:00 GMT

Just chatted to Kirk Allen Evans around the Requisite Pro issue and his feedback was that MS decided that they are not going to hit every single feature requirement, so rather make VSTS extensible. He pointed me to Borland's announcement at Tech-Ed that CaliberRM will be fully integrated into VSTS.

It looks like that will be the way to go (at least initially) with Requirments management in VSTS.

Have a look at http://www.redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=6729

Thanks

Peter

re: It seems I've riled a Rational salesrep

Peter Munnings — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:08:00 GMT

Hi Chris,

I have just come out of a meeting where we looked at almost the full Rational suite and I got to present for a few minutes on VSTS.

One question that keeps coming up, and I think is a very real question is - Is there any equivalent to Requisite Pro. How does one manage requirements in VSTS - linking, tracing, use cases etc

From what I have seen there is a gap in the Business Analysis side of VSTS that Requisite Pro fill pretty well and it would be great to find out if that gap is filled in the MS space.

Thanks

Chris Menegay on VSTS...

TrackBack — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:04:00 GMT

 I had the opportunity to meet Chris Menegay and his coworker Dave McKinstry at Tech Ed, and...

re: It seems I've riled a Rational salesrep

Garth Tolmie — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:10:00 GMT

Are we talking about the same company that "bought" three methodology gurus and then proclaimed that all is now "unified"? This same company that then went on to sell more expensive tools under this "unified" banner?

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Dave Bost — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:59:00 GMT

Let's not forget the companies where someone convinced management to purchase the Rational tools but the dev teams became so fed up with using them that they ditched them all together. I know of at least 3 companies where that's the case. I'm willing to bet there's plenty more.

re: It seems I've riled a Rational salesrep

Dave Smith (CTO Big Bawls Software LTD.) — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:14:00 GMT

ClearCase Blows! Anything is going to be better than that. All of Rational's stuff is so over priced! The guy that makes the decision to use that in the org should be let go!