I have recently noticed that many DOORS Next users seem unaware of the Glossary Terms feature. It is a very simple idea, and has been in the tool for some time now. I will explain what it is and how it works with a few screenshots to help. First of all, what is it? You […]
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 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 […]
As a unit of measure, a headful is not consistent. Not consistent between individuals, not consistent in any one individual from day to day. I will explain what I mean by the term, how it varies, and how to stretch it. Firstly the definition. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as ‘the amount a head […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
In DOORS Classic we have a Module prefix; every requirement (Object) has a number that is unique within the module, and every requirement in a module has the same prefix. The prefix is user defined, and so not guaranteed unique in the database, or even the project, but that is what we are used to, […]
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 […]
This is not a new question. We have been struggling with managing traceability to standards for as long as we have had the concept of traceability to standards. In the DOORS Classic World we had a few options, and we still have those options with DOORS Next Generation, but we also have a couple of […]