Feb 142017
 
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 […]

Apr 052016
 
Streams of Truth

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 […]

Jul 232014
 
A basic CM Flow in DOORS Next Generation

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 […]