As we start the journey in 2014, we wish you a very happy and prosperous new year!   This year, we plan to continue writing about the advances, challenges, best practices and product updates in the requirements management segment. Last year, we started coupled of blog posts series including RM 101 Refresher , Expert Interviews and Guest posts on best practices . Hope you enjoyed reading and benefited from them. If you have any wish list... [More]

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We had a fantastic DOORS customer webcast panel on September 26 with experts from across the industries talking about their experience in using IBM Rational DOORS for requirements management. If we have to take one success metric for the webcast; it was that we overshoot by half an hour from the designated one hour for the discussion because we had some wonderful discussions going on. Our panelists have graciously agreed to respond to the questions on an offline basis, and we are publishing the... [More]

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  Prof. Lawrence Chung ( chung@utdallas.edu ) is in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been working in System/Requirements Engineering and System/Software Architecture. He was the principal author of the research monograph “Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering", and has been involved in developing “ RE-Tools ” (a multi-notational tool for RE) with Dr. Sam Supakkul, “ HOPE ” (a smartphone application for... [More]

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A leading analyst and Systems Engineering expert, David Norfolk of Bloor Research recently published a white paper titled Reducing the risk of development failure with cost-effective capture and management of requirements. In this report, David dwells into the relevance of requirements management as a discipline and put forth his views on how the domain is changing with the advent of new development paradigms such as agile, mobile and devops.   If enterprise architecture... [More]

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T oday, we are starting a new series of interview blog posts -- Coffee Time with Requirements Experts. Through this series, we try to bring to you the thoughts, career experience and advice of experts from the industry. Enjoy!       We have with us Jared Pulham , a Senior Product Manager at IBM. He focuses specifically on requirements management tools and capabilities for Jazz . Jared is responsible for one of IBM's requirements management... [More]

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Prof. Neil Maiden is Professor of Systems Engineering at City University London. He is and has been a principal and co-investigator on numerous EPSRC- and EU-funded research projects. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in academic journals, conferences and workshops proceedings. He was Program Chair for the 12th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering in Kyoto in 2004, and was Editor of the IEEE Software’s Requirements column from 2005 until earlier... [More]

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Here is coverage of Requirements Management for Systems Engineering track keynote based on the presentation that Bill Shaw (Systems Program Director) and Richard Watson (Senior Product Manager for Requirements Management tools) delivered at Innovate 2013 today.   For those new to the space, IBM Rational DOORS is a widely recognized product in the requirements management area and here is how we see our products are meant for - Rational DOORS the trusted, de-facto standard... [More]

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    Alex Ivanov is a Senior Software Engineer II with Honors at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Alex has more than 10 years experience as a Requirements (DOORS) Database Manager supporting a large scale distributed requirements database in the aerospace and defense industry, specializing in writing re-usable DXL, training, user support and consulting with programs to ensure they get the most out of their use of IBM Rational DOORS. Alex in an IBM Certified... [More]

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In this guest blog post, Requirements Engineering Expert, Jeremy Dick continues with his discussion on practical applications of traceability. Read the first two parts here.   What’s really going on when you decompose a requirement? What’s really going on when you plan V&V against a requirement? I nspired by recent experience in a large... [More]

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In this guest blog post, Requirements Engineering Expert, Jeremy Dick continues with his discussion on practical applications of traceability. Read the first part here - The practical applications of traceability Part 1: What’s really going on when you decompose a requirement?       I nspired by recent experience in a large systems engineering project, Part 1 of... [More]

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In my career I’ve been deeply involved with both modeling and requirements management disciplines and tools, so it always intrigues me when I hear debates over whether largely textual based (sometimes referred to as  ‘traditional’ or ‘document-based’) or model-based approaches to defining and managing requirements are the right way to go. We’ve all heard the argument that a picture paints a thousand words, but I’ve always vividly remembered something I heard at a conference some years ago which... [More]

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I was lucky enough last week to travel to the INCOSE ( International Council on Systems Engineering ) International Symposium 2012 near Rome, Italy. An excellent opportunity to meet the systems engineering community and hear about their interests and concerns. We had lots of traffic to the very stylish IBM booth where we talked about the IBM Rational solutions for systems engineering and the latest from IBM Research on tool interoperability and design optimization & trade-off. I’d like... [More]

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