title: IBM Rational DOORS - should I deploy it myself, or is there something more appropriate?
body: <p>I'm inheriting a project that has, until now, had all its artifacts maintained in CVS and FogBugz. There's a ton of old and new documentation in MS Office format that needs to be reconciled.</p>
  
  <p>I've seen some presentations on IBM Rational DOORS and think it would solve the lack of traceability across all these different documents and systems. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that I could, for example, highlight a phrase in a Word document and mark that as a requirement, then create bi-directional links between that phrase and other artifacts, such as tasks in a bug-tracking system or entries in the changelog and user guide, to show that the requirement has been satisfied.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, if I want to use DOORS, I would probably have to install and maintain it myself. I found an open-source product for requirements management called <a href="http://rmtoo.florath.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">rmtoo</a>, but it looks like it would require me to rewrite all the documents document into a bunch of specially-formatted text files--which, for me, defeats the whole purpose. If DOORs is overkill, are there any low-overhead alternatives to DOORS?</p>