Category: ideas
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DNG Link to Base or Module Artifact?
In DOORS Next, should we be linking base artifacts or module artifacts? It is a question worthy of consideration for many reasons. The key principle that this approach addresses is to make it simple for the majority of the end users. Should links be:
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Virtual Workshops
Business as usual I have been working remotely for a little over ten years, so the current work from home is in many ways business as usual for me. I haven’t turned a wheel on the car for a couple of weeks, have only been outside the house to walk the dog and buy milk,…
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Using DOORS Next Gen in a Supply Chain
A common request is to maintain traceability into the supply chain. This has always proved to be problematic for a number of reasons, some technical and some political. I am offering here a potential solution. We have, in many industries, now progressed beyond the clone-and-own approach to reuse, and some support for genuine reuse of…
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Storing Standards in DNG
Many industries rely heavily on a large number of standards, a selection of which are used on each project. There is a perennial problem of managing these so that they are visible within the engineering data environment along with other design artifacts. I wrote previously about some approaches to creating and maintaining traceability to the…
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Better Practice for Managing Agile Stories
I recently came across a project working Agile with Rational Team Concert (RTC). This is great, they have all the tracking tools they need to monitor project velocity, and to manage which stories will go into which sprint. Job done. Short blog entry here… Oh, just one thing. Who is ever in a project that…
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So you miss your DOORS Module Prefix…
In DOORS Classic we have a Module prefix; every requirement (Object) has a number that is unique within the module, and every requirement in a module has the same prefix. The prefix is user defined, and so not guaranteed unique in the database, or even the project, but that is what we are used to,…
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Connecting jazz project areas
I have been working in a small team this week on setting up a framework for a large project. We had all of our toys out of the box and it was important to make sure that everything was correct. We had DOORS Next Generation, Team Concert, Quality Manager, Design Manager, and RELM, sitting in…
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How to handle Standards in DOORS Next Generation
This is not a new question. We have been struggling with managing traceability to standards for as long as we have had the concept of traceability to standards. In the DOORS Classic World we had a few options, and we still have those options with DOORS Next Generation, but we also have a couple of…
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Managing test data in DOORS Next Generation
The topic of test management comes up every now and again. Some people might remember the Test Tracking Toolkit from DOORS Classic, some might even have been using it recently. We also have a decent test management tool in Rational Quality Manager (RQM). I have been thinking about the options for a simplified way of…
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Managing DOORS Data across an air gap in the supply chain
I posted a while ago on using DOORS Partitions for offline working. In that post, I mentioned that we had worked out a process for managing the data in a supply chain, and that is what I am going to cover here. In an ideal world, you would have your suppliers directly accessing your data…