Category: editorial
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A basic CM Flow in DOORS Next Generation
A little while ago, I posted about Real Configuration Management for Requirements, but I didn’t go in to any detail about HOW it should, or could be used. Requirements engineers/managers are not typically working with configuration management at this level on a daily basis, so I have set out a very basic flow here. First…
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Real Configuration Management for Requirements
DOORS Next Generation is getting Configuration Management capabilities. This is a huge step for DOORS NG, a requirements management tool. The CM capability is similar to what you might expect for source control, with similar language, like ‘streams’, ‘deliver’, ‘workspace’, and others. I think that we will find that many requirements management users (or Business…
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Cinderella SHALL go to the ball
Be part of a social experiment: share the IBM Innovate hallway conversations. IBM Innovate is soon to be underway, running from 1-5 June 2014. This year I didn’t get the Golden Ticket, so I am changing my name to Cinderella and staying home. I realized that I didn’t have to let a little thing like…
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Documenting a DOORS Database Schema
Following on from the Information Architecture Workshop series, I want to show an example of how some of that information should be documented. A comprehensive document should be made available, but also a summary document for quick reference and guidance. Some years ago we produced a quick reference document for a generic schema and process,…
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Where DOORS Next meets Insight
I have been looking at the topic of reporting from DOORS Next Generation this week. After all, what good is all that data if we can’t get information out of it. The scripting technology preview is good for working with small amounts of data for the immediate attention of the user, but some of those…
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The times they are a-changin’
I have been spending time this week with Aged P and we came to talk about technology in the office. This was prompted by my excess of technology, including a Raspberry Pi. In the Olden Days – well OK 1980 – office documentation was a manual affair with typists and forms.
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Upgrade! Proceed with care.
I had a local installation of RTC/RQM/DNG* on my laptop at version 4.0.4 and decided to upgrade to 4.0.5. This is my first upgrade so I approached it with caution, although my fall back position was to uninstall, delete all traces and start again from scratch.
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Finding vs Searching
This post is a little off my normal topics but is another subject close to my heart. Two questions that come up far too regularly are: Where should that be stored? How do people know where to look?
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Trying out a web development course
It looks like I really need to have at least an appreciation of JavaScript for the DOORS Next Gen scripting. I did a quick search for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), with a slight preference for EdX because I have used them before. EdX and Coursera didn’t have anything I liked the look of,…
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Customization with scripting for DNG
Client side scripting is coming to DOORS Next Generation. If you go to the jazz.net downloads you can get an early release candidate of version 4.0.5 which has a technology preview of client side scripting. This is not a fully comprehensive feature yet, but this is a good start. The API documentation is here and…