Valispace Reviews

The way you can connect the whole project/mission you are working on and the features that Valispace brings for efficiently doing calculations and keeping everything right there.

There was nothing I didn't like about Valispace.

I used Valispace when my colleagues and I were working on a Mercury Sample Return Mission design. When we came to use Valispace, we could put together our mission requirements in general and the mission requirements of each subsystem. This was very helpful as we all could see the work that each subsystem lead and team were doing. I was working on the Avionics and communications part, and some of my decisions were based on the calculations of another subsystem, or my decisions affected other subsystems. Valispace helped us discuss our choices while simultaneously being able to check each other's estimates. It also help us in revising that the decisions or calculations we were making were the right choices.

The platform is very easy to learn and use.

Not being able to perform functional analysis.

Data Management is way easier with Valispace. It allows me to better connect and track all my system's data.

Valispace has a modern interface and enables quick creation and modifying of requirements. It supports good tracability practices and allows you to see the connections between requirements to ensure proper flow down has taken place. There are additional layers of functionality that we are not yet using, but I like that the tool will support additional use-cases as we grow in need. I can manage multiple specifications in the same project (with the same structure as our output documents) and I can complete traceability between specs. The Valispace support team is excellent - they are responsive and will conduct training for me or colleagues to be sure we get the best out of the tool. They have also gone the extra mile to be sure we can import requirements from documents and streamline our startup.

Formatting inside of a requirement is still limited (only simple tables, one level of numbered items, no numbered lists using letters as number). As a frequent user of valispace, I have now an understanding of the layout, setup, and how to navigate within the system. Novice or less-frequent users have trouble navigating the workspaces and projects.

Valispace supports our requirements engineering, enabling quick requirement input, and, more importantly, sharing and review between employees. There are review and comment functions which will help us to be sure we don't miss something in our requirements.

Valispace provides an integrated approach to the modelling of a product's components and architecture in relation to the requirements. This allows for a high degree of traceability, and therefore efficient product development.

Although the concept is far ahead of the competition, the tool could be improved in terms of lifecycle and maturity management.

Valispace bridges the gap between the abstract concept of requirements to the tangible product structure, and combines it with a well-structured testing approach. A fully integrated development tool!

End-to-end , immediate propagation of computations, requirements management

Absence of a bin to recover deleted components, random bugs that may happen

Single source for systems engineering data management, subsystems sizing, budgets, requirements organization and links with design parameters

end2end traceability, change version control, link between requirements and design

Absence of some systems engineering activities (e.g. functional analysis)

Consistency of data

Getting started with the Valispace tool is straightforward and not complicated. It's easy to manage requirements with the available tools and its not necessary .

sometimes the tool hangs, especially when a larger number of requirements is stored. There is no ReqIF implemented.

An easy way to manage requirements in one source, without the necessity to use a comprehensive and complicated tool like DOORS. And it is possible to use some extra stuff like some analysis tools.

Thanks to the use of ValiSpace, the System Engineering tasks, such as the definition and monitoring of the requirements and the creation and monitoring of technical budgets, are easier to perform and, even better, are more visible to the rest of the team.

The interface tool is not useful. It would be much better if some specific parameters or documents could be attached to the interfaces (links).

The tool has a problem with refreshing, and very often it is necessary to refresh the page manually in order to see the last changes.

The definition of requirements, the relationship between them, and the monitoring of their compliance have become much easier with this tool.

The team has much more visibility of the system engineering documentation, and the model can be used as a single source of trust.

The management module is also very useful for the monitoring of current activities, through the use of the tasking and scheduling features.

The availability of variables associated with components (the parameters that define the model) is very powerful to compute some quick analyses during the early stages of the program.

The whole way, how Valispace is structured. Sum of children, modes, dependencies etc. I was even able to build a warehouse within it.

The calculations and updates take sometimes too much time once the structure is bit more complex.

We needed some place where to design our system and this is just the right one.

Ease of use: all engineers are able to use it quickly out of the box. It is easy to add/copy elements and link between requirements and system data.

The tool does not support branching: with branching, it would be easier to track baseline and handle change proposals. This would allow us to check changes and implement a process to accept them and bring them to baseline.

All data is centralised and we can link them together and create a single source of truth. Especially the link with requirements makes this very valuable, as we always have the latest information in the spec.