Project management tools for v-model?

Question

Hi all,

My boss worked for a big company where V-model and Rational Notes are used.

Now I am working for him and he really don't like TRAC which I am using. For him, it's too simple, it has no idea of a "project", it doesn't have clear separations of "Requirement analysis -> System Design -> ..."

So he asked me to find some new tools, which could integrate requirement management, bug tracking, task tracking, and could force a V-model in the developement process.

I looked for a couple of open-source project management tools and I can find anything similar. It seems that V-model is not so popular in open source model. And we can not use Rational Notes because it's really expensive.

Do you have any suggestion?

Answer 1

Try Rational Software Architect

Answer 2

The V-model (admittedly, I had seen it before but didn't know its name) is more closely associated with Waterfall as opposed to any of the Agile methods... so you're going to have a hard time finding Open Source tools that support it. Which makes sense... OSS is developed as Agile due to a constant flow of requirements and feature requests balanced against limited time and everyone scratching their personal itch.

I think you're going to have difficulties unless you roll your own...

Answer 3

You should have a look at Lighthouse. They offer a free (as in free beer) basic hosted service for a single small project, or you can pay for a more-featured edition.