Inflectra SpiraTeam

Collaboration

Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

ALM Integration

Integrate across all project, product, development, and service delivery phases including products such as ALM and Microsoft Office suites

Task Prioritization

Ability to assign a priority to tasks.

Reusability

Ability to re-use requirements across projects/products.

Version Management

Ability to create and view multiple versions of a content asset through iterative edits in accordance with pre-defined limitations.

Visual Analysis and Design

Provides the ability to build (not import) various business or technical models that capture an application's alignment to business capabilities etc.

Artifact Management

Unique identification and management of individual requirements or by-products of requirements.

Agile Work Management

Multiple backlogs, backlog grooming, sprint planning, prioritization, and estimation, and a multi-level agile artifact hierarchy (Epics, User Stories, etc.)

Traceability

ALM artifacts can be traced from ideation to requirements, design, develop, test, and implementation including identifying gaps and the impact of changes.

Change Management

Ability to manage the approval of and changes to requirement artefacts.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.