Document Management Tools

Document Management is a critical function that must be supported by any ALM tool. Document management includes the following tasks:

• Maintaining different versions of a document
• Managing the editing of different versions of a document
• Managing the review of different versions of a document by different team members
• Maintaining a log of all comments made by team members
• Maintaining a log of all questions asked by team members along with answers provides by the document owner
• Allowing document owner to initiate a review of the document
• Allowing document owner to define approval protocols for a document. this includes who is supposed to approve the document and, if multiple people are supposed to approve a document, in what order they may approve it
• Attach the document to one or more user stories or requirements

Rommana ALM Document management tools supports two different types of documents. These are Models and Documents. Models are used to describe an aspect of the system being built. Examples of models are Data Models, Process Models, Activity Diagrams, State Transition Diagrams, etc. Document on the other hand are typical documents used in a project. Examples are Test Plans, Project Plans, Requirements Specification, Contingency Plans, etc. Rommana ALM provides pre-defined model and document types. The use can always modify those types or add new types as it fits with the project.

Using the document management tools in Rommana ALM, you can perform many features that are not available in other document management software. Some of these features include: