This is the second post in our series – Managing Your Requirements 101 – A Refresher. Read the first part here .   Requirements are the starting point for everything - project scoping, cost estimation, scheduling, coding, testing, and release management. If the requirements captured doesn’t serve the purpose that are supposed to do; there is hardly any benefit in spending time and money behind it. I remember in Innovate 2012 at Orlando, Arnold Flores from... [More]

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I'm writing from Innovate 2012 in Orlando, Florida where thousands are attending sessions and sharing thoughts about software development and systems engineering. One topic that keeps coming up is that of traceability . On Sunday at VoiCE (Voice of the Customer Event), we had some great discussions with clients in the industrial sector building complex and embedded systems such as planes, cars and medical devices about traceability scenarios they have. There was a lively discussion around how... [More]

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  Jeremy Dick works as Principal Analyst for Integrate Systems Engineering Ltd in a consultancy, research and thought leadership capacity. He has extensive experience in implementing practical requirements processes in significant organizations, including tool customization, training and mentoring. At Integrate, he has been developing the concept of Evidence-based Development, an extension of his previous work on “rich traceability”. Prior to this appointment, he... [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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As we mentioned in an earlier blog post , DOORS 9.4 and DOORS Web Access (DWA) 1.5 were released during Innovate 2012.This blog post provides insight into what’s changed in this release of DOORS and some of the significant new features. I have also provided a few resources where you can learn more about this release. DOORS –RQM Integration based on OSLC The most significant changes in DOORS 9.4 are the improvements to OSLC based integrations. A new integration based on OSLC has been provided... [More]

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Yet another edition of Innovate - The IBM Technical Summit is knocking your doors! . The 2014 event promises to be even more exciting with top-notch keynotes, over 450 breakout sessions, labs, certifications and our biggest exhibit hall ever. As in previous events, Requirements Management is one of the key areas of interest at Innovate which attracts speakers and attendees from across the globe representing a wide range of industries. In 2013, we had two tracks for Requirements... [More]

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