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 am going to take a look at two aspects of user access controls in DOORS Next Generation that frequently come up. The first is how to restrict read access for some team members to some parts of the project area. The second is how to limit who can make changes to individual attribute values. […]
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, […]
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 […]
I posted a while ago on using DOORS Partitions for offline working. In that post, I mentioned that we had worked out a process for managing the data in a supply chain, and that is what I am going to cover here. In an ideal world, you would have your suppliers directly accessing your data […]
As our world becomes more connected, this topic comes up less often, but it is still an issue for many people. I am not talking about data sharing down the supply chain here, but about taking your work away with you on a laptop and returning it to the corporate database with updates some time […]
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 of these generic patterns. I am still considering how many other patterns I need, and […]