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I have been playing with the idea of a very generic process core. It is sufficiently abstract to not be useful on its own, but only as a pattern for building content. I think there may be a small handful…
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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.…
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DOORS Information Architecture Workshop. Part 4 of 4
From the previous three articles in this series, we know what we have and what we want to have; we just have to plan the route. I have started this section with definition of the database schema, which is arguably…
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DOORS Information Architecture Workshop. Part 3 of 4
In the previous two articles I looked at discovering the as-is situation. This article will focus on identifying the to-be situation. If we don’t know where we are headed then we can’t expect to get there, or recognise if we…
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DOORS Information Architecture Workshop. Part 2 of 4
In the previous article I looked at what information needs to be collected in the as-is phase of a DOORS Information Architecture Workshop. In this article, I will focus on how that information is collected. As a reminder, this series…
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DOORS Information Architecture Workshop. Part 1 of 4
Setting up a new project in DOORS can be a little daunting. The tool comes with an open and flexible way to structure your data, which is great if you are experienced, but not so great if you are new…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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DOORS Next Artifact Types
One of the really nice features of DOORS Next is that artifact* types are defined for the project, and artifacts used in a module can be of various types.