Hi and welcome friends!   We are here to talk about and share knowledge on aspects of product and systems engineering from concept to disposal as they relate to the IBM offerings. Topics are focused on, but not limited to, systems, complex systems, systems of systems, and sub-systems, through embedded software development, testing and certification.   Your participation is welcomed and encouraged! This is a place for practitioners to connect with each other, whether they are new to the subject, or whether they are industry thought... [More]

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I often get asked about setting up Rational DOORS by new users.   This is all basic, and very easy once you are familiar with the tool, but we never seem to point out the basics - not just DOORS, not just software, at some point in your life you suddenly find there are things that you should just know!   If you have tips to share, not just on tools, but on process too, add an entry to this blog. Traceability is managed in DOORS with Link Modules.  By default you can't see these in the database explorer, but if you use the View menu then you can... [More]

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The Iron Triangle... you know the one; Time, Cost and Quality, you can improve one or two of those, but only at the expense of the other(s).  I learned about this a long time ago and was led to believe that it was fixed. What if that is a flatland approach?  What if it isn't a triangle at all, but a pyramid.  Time, Cost and Quality are the edges of the pyramid.  That makes them the points of the cross-section triangles.  How do we move up the pyramid, to make our triangle smaller? It isn't as crazy as it sounds.  If you want to improve Time,... [More]

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 UPDATE: Thank you for your participation. Please feel free to explore the discussion threads that are linked from this post. A full summary of this event can be found in this follow-up notice from John Chard . Please join us in a virtual round-table* discussion on Product and Systems Engineering.  The focus of the discussion will be how we can use Agile practices to help with systems engineering, and how those Agile practices work with more traditional systems engineering lifecycle activities.  Some suggested topics to address include:... [More]

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With the Innovate 2013 call for papers open, it is time for the OSLC community to flood the organizers with excellent proposals across all tracks. Read more on the OSLC blog .

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Thank you to all those of you who contributed to and visited the recent Agile Systems Engineering Virtual Round Table event. It has been a very successful opening event for our community with 152 posts in 5 discussion threads and over 2500 views – and community membership doubled during the round table. It was really great to see such lively discussion with some key topics emerging from the conversation, including: The relationship between requirements and tests in an agile environment The importance of the right level of focus on requirements... [More]

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Are you engaged in software development for real-time and embedded systems? If so, then Innovate 2013 is a great place to share the latest knowledge and insights with your peers. Whether you’re a developer, a technical manager or an executive in an organization developing the next generation of smarter software, we’d like to hear from you. We’re inviting submissions for papers on a variety of topics around real-time and embedded software development, including (but not limited to): Case studies and success stories Agile embedded... [More]

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At the end of last year, we had a great jam on agile systems engineering. This jam had some meaty exchanges and one of the best parts was the particapation of a few experts from our client base. I find these jams to be great channels for us to test out some of our practice leadership and thought leadership ideas and test them or refine them with semi-public peer review from savvy colleagues. I captured a few of my own positions in my blog http:// bit.ly/UtdfG6 during the first couple weeks of 2013. One of these topics, requirements... [More]

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Systems Engineering Processes are…   Crazy difficult! Why? So many people, so little time!  So much regulation, so little control!  So many teams, so little communication!   Systems Engineering Processes are hard to define, and even harder to put in to practice.  Many companies use tools like Excel, Visio, and Word to “model” the process. They put it on the wall. They put them in books.  And they hope someone follows it.  Process enactment can be a bigger challenge than process modeling.   Regulatory demands increase the “process enactment”... [More]

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