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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]