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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 a part of the to-be. I have included it in this roadmap planning phase because […]
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 do get there. An agreed view on the to-be can sometimes be hard to achieve, […]
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 consists of : What information needs to be collected for the as-is How to collect […]
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 to it. The options are seemingly endless and the opportunities to back yourself into an […]