Benchmark of means and tools for SSRS activities

Tasks to cover

• Requirement management
• Data dictionary management
• Function description
• Architecture and Data-flow description
• Brain storming

Items to manage

• Textual description and pictures
• Variables
  • name
  • description
  • document source
  • type
  • value
• Requirements
  • Id
  • textual description
  • document source
  • safety tags
  • allocated function/ system
• Data Flows
  • name
  • source item
  • goal item
  • types and contents
• Functions
  • name
  • function block
  • document source
  • textual description
  • associated requirements

Storage of information and exchange format

• central data-base or shared files ?
• text files, excel sheet, xml,... ?
• standards ?
• Linked data (OSLC)
• paper sheets

Candidates

Which approaches and tools are candidates ?