Homogenization of the tool environment via an ALM tool – ALM tool chains cover the whole life-cycle of a system and manage all artifacts of the development process in a holistic approach. Issue trackers implementing the Volere requirements template have been used successfully in distributed environments. The advantage of this approach is that the homogenization of artifacts allows managing and analyzing them easily with dedicated tools of the ALM tool. The disadvantage is that it is necessary to implement the whole ALM tool chain. If introduced, it is difficult to replace specific tools in the tool chain.