Company: Telelogic
Company Description: Telelogic is a public company headquartered in Malmö, Sweden. It is the leading global supplier of solutions for advanced systems and software development. By providing integrated best-of-breed products and professional services for the end-to-end software development lifecycle, Telelogic enables organizations to improve quality and predictability, while reducing time-to-market and overall costs.
Nomination Category: Team Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Product Development Team

Nomination Title: Telelogic Development Team Sets New Standards for Requirements Management with DOORS® 7.0 and DOORS/Analyst™

Tell the story about what this nominated team achieved in the past year (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

Requirements management – capturing, tracking and managing requirements and
project deliverables from idea through delivery – is a powerful competitive weapon. 
Product development and systems engineering teams are driven to deliver results
faster, more accurately and with fewer and fewer resources.  Requirements
management tools provide the power to accurately track requirements in great
detail, providing a process, structure and critical context so requirements are
clearly communicated and executed, ensuring teams deliver the right product to
market on time, on budget and to specification.

Telelogic DOORS has long been known as the world’s most advanced
requirements management tool.  In 2003, the DOORS development team
revolutionized requirements management again with the introduction of an entirely
new concept, Dynamic Requirements Management, found only in DOORS 7.0. 

With the dynamic nature of today's modern software and systems development
practices, the DOORS development team recognized that it is no longer possible
to gather a complete set of requirements specifications upfront and set them in
stone for the duration of the project.  A more practical approach, which reflects
today’s development practices, is to allow requirements specifications to evolve as
the development project progresses.  Until the release of DOORS 7.0,
requirements management tools have lacked the advanced functionality needed to
balance myriad requirements changes with tight control of project scope, cost,
quality and delivery.  And the increasing popularity of distributed/global
development models makes these challenges exponentially more complex. 
DOORS 7.0 solves these challenges with Dynamic Requirements Management,
providing the highest levels ever of requirements visibility, collaboration and
validation.  DOORS 7.0 goes beyond existing requirements management
capabilities to provide a historical record of traceability and a complete audit trail
during incremental development and test, and supports parallel development by
teams working on different versions or variants. 

Within months of releasing DOORS 7.0, the team again expanded its range with
DOORS/Analyst™.  DOORS/Analyst is a revolutionary modeling tool that
operates within DOORS, enabling requirements to be visualized using UML 2.0
graphical diagrams.  The ability to use visual models inside a requirements
management tool is an industry first, and compared to textual requirements, it
improves understanding, simplifies communication and jump-starts the design
process.

A picture paints a thousand words, yet, at times, there's no substitute for a well-
written description.  When it comes to expressing requirements, sometimes words
can describe information best and other times pictures are most effective.  Often,
though, a combination of both is the best way to capture requirements. 
DOORS/Analyst is the industry’s only tool that offers the ability to choose the
best means of expressing requirements.  DOORS/Analyst provides a powerful, yet
simple, tool for drawing pictures, diagrams and models.  It automatically creates
UML models from textual requirements, which can used throughout the
development process – supporting rapid, early prototyping and validation.

DOORS 7.0 and DOORS/Analyst have taken requirements management to an
unprecedented level.  The achievements of the DOORS development team have
cemented this product’s position as the pre-eminent requirements management
solution on the market.

List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:

http://www.telelogic.com
http://www.telelogic.com/products/doorsers/releasenews/
http://www.telelogic.com/products/doorsers/releasenews/whatsnewdoors7.cfm
http://www.telelogic.com/campaigns/2003/global/doors_analyst/index.cfm
http://www.telelogic.com/sddoors
http://www.telelogic.com/news/2003/030707DOORS7-eng.pdf
http://www.telelogic.com/news/2003/031006DOORSAnalyst-eng.pdf
http://www.telelogic.com/products/doorsers/articlesandpapers/index.cfm

Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader(s) of this nominated team:

Anders Lidbeck was named president and CEO when he joined Telelogic in 1998. 
Lidbeck steered the company through 10 acquisitions and a period of
unprecedented, rapid growth, including Telelogic’s listing on the Swedish stock
exchange.  Lidbeck serves on the Board of Directors and has a proven background
in the telecom and information technology industry.  He was sales director at Telia
Megacom in Sweden from 1996 to 1998, and at ICL Industry Systems in France,
now owned by Fujitsu, from 1995 to 1996.  He was president at ICL Direct BV,
Holland, from 1992 to 1995.  Lidbeck is based in Malmö, Sweden.