Doc Sheets Benefits & Features

Now you don’t have to keep switching from one tool to another for life-cycle management or be constrained by whatever limited set of artifacts your management system will require. With Doc Sheets, you decide what artifacts you want and create them easily. In addition, Doc Sheets’ requirements tracking tools helps you improve quality and promote compliance throughout the development process.

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Versatile and High-Performance Tool

You can use Doc Sheets to manage a wide range of projects and develop products in your company. Doc Sheets offers high performance for large projects and users.  You can manage user requirements specifications and related test cases in one tool. 

Work Items

You can manage items in sheets and create as many sheets as you need for artifacts (ex: requirements, user stories, use cases, tasks). 

Doc Sheets enables you to use multiple data views (Tree View, Grid View, Document Views, Flow View and Card Views).

Project management with Flow (Kanban) Views
Creating specifications with automatic document generation
Automatic Word documents and Excel sheets Import
Verification and validation of systems and software
Complete lifecycle management with version control and traceability
Multiple users can concurrently work on views

Traceability

Say goodbye to traceability gaps. Your traceability has never been this easier. Doc Sheets includes visual trace graphs and award-winning traceability analysis tools.

  • Multilevel traceability & Trace graphs
  • Automatically create traceability relationships
  • Items on one sheet can be linked to items on another sheet, or items within a sheet can also be linked.
  • Automatic forward and backward traceability
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Analysis & Work Flow Managment

You can generate a wide range of reports visually without any coding knowledge. Doc Sheets provides a sharable database for collaboration and workflow management. 

Effortlessly generate reports with visual filtering, sorting, and drag-and-drop grouping

  • Generate output in various formats (Excel (xlsx), pdf, json, document (docx), and HTML formats
  • Generate specifications documents with a table of contents

Automatic Change Management

  • You can effectively control changes with Doc Sheets built-in tools.
  • Baselining (manual & automatic)
  • Locking
  • Automatic change history
  • Roll back to any previous version
  • Electronic Signature
  • User Access Control
  • Impact Analysis
    Spec Sheets - Change Management
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    Collaboration & Workflow Management

    Doc Sheets provides a sharable database for collaboration and workflow management. Its features allow:

    • Work form any where with any device (PC, Mac or Tablet)
    • Assign Tasks
    • Review the progress of task
    • Automatic concurrency control
    • Encryption of communications

      Doc Sheets enables the round trip exchange of data with various files and tools.

      • Import data records from existing documents
      • Perform offline editing of data records in a spreadsheet or word processor.
      • Reconcile the changes with your database.
      • Interface with other tools (ex: JIRA)Import from files (Word, JSON, Excel)
      • Export data in various formats (XLSX, JSON, WORD, XLSX)
      • REST API for connecting different external sources.

      Doc Sheets is a life cycle and requirements management software that is easier than a spreadsheet or word. It allows managing artifacts (such as requirements, test cases, and tasks) with total traceability, version control, and collaboration features. This multifaceted tool provides innumerable benefits and competitive advantages that no other resource can offer.

      All project artifacts (such as requirements, use cases, test cases, and tasks) have a unique and consistent interface that requires little or no training. It’s also incredibly simple to use, manage, and configure, so you can get started developing systems quickly. It does not cause project delays at the start, which are common with complex tools with a steep learning curve.

      The user-friendly interface, which includes customizable skins and resizable fonts, caters to a wide range of users’ preferences.

      Users can collaborate on projects from anywhere using a PC, MAC, or Tablet. Doc Sheets also provides concurrency control and ad hoc workflow management tools.

      Multi-Site/Multi-Time Zone Support

      With Doc Sheets, globally dispersed teams may collaborate via a central repository and real-time access to data through a high-performance client. The repository stores data per the standard UTC Time zone, but it automatically converts stored data/documents times to each user’s local geographic time zone.

      Secure

      Doc Sheets lets you securely collaborate with project stakeholders and customers by controlling user access to different project artifacts and using HTTPS.

      Versatile Project Management Tool

      Highly straightforward to use for any of your projects
      Doc Sheets is a one-of-a-kind, intuitive tool. To use and customize it for any of your projects, it practically requires no training. Doc Sheets can be used to:

      Management

      • Requirements Management
      • Requirements Traceability
      • Automatic Change Management
      • Project Management
      • Test Case Management
      • Lifecycle Management and many more

      Development

      • Systems Development
      • Software Development
      • General Product Development
      • Embedded Systems
      • Medical Devices
      • Apps and many more.

      Process

      • Agile Process
      • Scrum Process
      • Waterfall Proces
      • V-Model
      • Big Bang Model
      • Spiral Model
      • Custom Process

      Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

       We’ve compiled a list of answers to common questions. Please review them below.

      What are the advantages of Doc Sheets?

      Doc Sheets is a powerful requirements management system. It is

      • Affordable
      • Easy to use
      • Easy to learn
      How does Doc Sheets help with requirements management?

      With Doc Sheets, you can manage your requirements lifecycle from start to finish.

      • Requirement Attribution
      • Requirements Hierarchy
      • Requirements Tracking
      • Requirement to Requirement linkage
      • Requirement to Deliverable linkage
      • Requirement Traceability Matrix
      • Requirements Forward and Backward Traceability
      • Requirement  Links Missing Reports
      • Requirements Versioning
      • Requirement Baselines
      • Requirement Impact Analysis
      • Requirement Verification
      • Requirement Validation
      How does Doc Sheets help in change management?

      Doc Sheets automatically maintains all versions of entered requirements, test cases, and other artifact changes. This means that users may revert back to any version of a particular requirement, test case, or other artifacts with a single click.

      The change management feature also allows users to generate reports of artifacts’ change histories at any time, making the task of viewing the timeline and history of changes simple.

      Why should systems development use requirements management software?

      The industry introduces the requirements management system to properly manage requirements and ensure their optimal and accurate application. The purpose of such a process is to document, analyze, track, agree, monitor, version, and prioritize the requirements defined by the stakeholders.

      First, it should be clarified that a requirement is a specific, measurable, and recorded physical or functional need that a design, product, or process must meet. Indeed, in its basic form, a requirements management tool is a benchmark for product development teams that ensures that all team members can track requirements as they progress through work and appropriately evaluate their progress at any time in the product development process. Indeed, during product development, teams can save time, money, and effort by using a real-time requirements management platform that records everything from tacit knowledge to regulatory compliance standards.

      The technical requirements management tool lets you capture, track, analyze, and manage changes to requirements in one secure, central, and accessible place. This helps to strengthen collaboration, increase transparency and traceability, reduce transformations and develop user-friendliness. A digital solution also improves project agility and makes it easier to meet and comply with regulations.

      Using a digital requirements management tool has several advantages; first, a team can work in real-time, anywhere. The team members can share information within and between documents, wherever they are. In addition, the team can use the same requirement in multiple places without redefining it. You can create baselines to identify the status of a requirement in real time; to reduce the occurrence of user errors.

      Is it important to use requirements management tools when developing software?

      In the specialty of software engineering, requirements management is a fundamental component. Its main objective is to monitor the satisfaction of customer requirements, as well as internal and external stakeholders regarding the product to be developed.

      Activities that are part of this include requirements definition and management. Indeed, it is a sequence of tasks, in other words, a sequence of chronologically ordered processes that span the entire duration of the project. Commonly, the project manager, also called the requirements management engineer, oversees the implementation and integration of requirements and changes and the ordinary course of the project. Let’s take a closer look: for example, for IT projects, if the definition of what the software to be developed must achieve and which processes it must support, it becomes obvious that problems appear in the rest of the process.

      It should be noted that in large-scale projects operating on complex products, the aforementioned discipline helps to maintain efficiency at a high level throughout the project and to avoid errors and conflicts between all project partners. Problems arising from any change in the customer’s wishes can be managed and handled in advance by a requirements management engineer who will define measures to mitigate the spread of any adverse effects.

      In summary, the field of project management continues to evolve in a market perpetually marked by ever-increasing competition, the need to make rapid changes, and the arrival of new technologies (Machine Learning, automation, AI, etc.).

      What is Doc Sheets ‘s upgrade policy?

      Upgrades are free for the SaaS solution (Browser Edition that we host).
      Each Doc Sheets licensed copy includes one-year free upgrades and support. After the first year, upgrades and support may be purchased for an additional fee equal to 20% of the total cost of Doc Sheets.

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