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 […]
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 […]
One argument put forward for the use of databases, models and other data storage solutions is that we need a single source of the truth. The question that is not raised at this point is ‘What is the truth?’. We often want multiple versions of the truth. When I give data to a supplier, I […]
Now that the DOORS Next Generation V6.0 has been out for a little while, I thought I should share some of my thoughts on how and why to use configurations. I am pleased to see that from an end user perspective, this is really easy to use – you get a work item linking to […]
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 […]