Category: tips
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Managing access in DOORS Next
The access controls in DOORS Next are really quite good, however, you need to really think about how you are going to get the best out of them. Access control is made up of two components; What you can do, and where you can do it. First lets look at the Project Members and Project…
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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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Connecting DOORS NG and DOORS 9 with OSLC
I recently had a need to connect DOORS Next Generation to DOORS 9 with OSLC. The environment that I had was complete with a configured set up of DOORS Web Access, which is necessary along with DOORS 9 and DNG. The set up for OSLC is actually fairly simple, but there are a couple of…
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Setting the Context in DNG
I have been setting up a demo project in DOORS Next Generation. It starts with a Vision Document and then moves on to a number of Context diagrams. There will be more as the project develops, but that is as far as it goes for this article. First I started with a clean DNG project…
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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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How big is a project?
How big is a project… or more specifically, how big should a DOORS Next Generation project be. Where do we draw the project boundaries in DNG. The answer, of course, is ‘it depends’, the trick is to know on what it depends. At one extreme, you run a single project and have everything in there.…
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DOORS Next Gen Access Control Workarounds
I am going to take a look at two aspects of user access controls in DOORS Next Generation that frequently come up. The first is how to restrict read access for some team members to some parts of the project area. The second is how to limit who can make changes to individual attribute values.…
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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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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…