As we reach the close of a year and move into a new one, it's often time to take stock of what we've been doing and making plans for the New Year. We look at what we've been doing right and what we could change and improve. So since this is a requirements management blog I thought it would worth posing the question and giving an opinion on whether requirements management (in the domain of systems and product development - my focus area) is still relevant today and as we move into... [More]

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  The importance of communication and collaboration in developing and managing good requirements were discussed in our earlier post on How to enable effective requirements communication and collaboration . In this guest blog post, Melissa Robinson - a Senior Technical Specialist at IBM writes about how Rational DOORS addresses this aspects with Discussions. Melissa started her career at Telelogic enabling Product Management with technical support around requirements management. Melissa spent 3... [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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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 helps to bridge the... [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 systems engineering project, Part 1 of this blog... [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 this essay covered the practice of... [More]

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