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 Raytheon speaking... [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 worked for 9... [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 people with... [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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In this post Jim Hays writes about the various options available in testing how the requirements are met in IBM Rational DOORS. Jim works as a Senior Systems Engineer at IBM. Jim started his career in 1982 working for software providers. Jim’s career history is an interesting one; he hasn’t worked for many software companies over the course of his career. He worked for Applied Data Research (7 years) that eventually got bought by Computer Associates. He then moved to Goal Systems, that got... [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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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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IBM Rational DOORS family solutions offer best practices in requirements management and traceability, saving organizations time and money, through improved collaboration with stakeholders to eliminate inaccurate, incomplete, and omitted requirements. Doors Next Generation is a requirements management application for optimizing requirements communication, collaboration and verification throughout your organization and supply chain. This scalable solution can help you meet business goals by... [More]

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Register Now: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5214791604961762305 Many regulatory agencies and industry standards (ISO 26262, DO-178, IEC 61508 and IEC 62304) require engineering tools used as part of the safety development life-cycle to be qualified to ensure that the tool is functioning correctly for the intended purpose. Using software tools in a qualified capacity enables users to achieve optimum value from the use of the tools, and significantly reduces the burden of costly and... [More]

Register Now: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4027093644804267522 Many regulatory agencies and industry standards require engineering tools used as part of the safety development life-cycle to be qualified to ensure that the tool is functioning correctly for the intended purpose. Reliance on software tools for eliminating, reducing or automating elements of the safety life-cycle continues to increase.  Formal tool qualification provides objective evidence of compliance with the... [More]

DOORS Next Generation has been out in the field and in serious use for some time, and we know that many long-time DOORS users have been looking to extend it in the same way as they can with DOORS. The scripting capabilities in DNG are not as full as those provided through DXL, but they are being developed with each release. We already have a number of examples published on jazz.net . I am sure that many of you will have had ideas as well. I encourage you to add yours to the existing catalog. If... [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 Management with... [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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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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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 products,... [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 requirements... [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 Deployment... [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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This year,  Innovate - The IBM Technical Summit will be held from June 2 to 6 at Orlando, Florida. As in previous editions, we will be having two tracks dedicated to requirements management at the event. One track would be focusing on requirements definition and management for IT/Application development and the other track will be focusing on Requirements Engineering for Systems and Product development. Each track will have 16 sessions starting with the... [More]

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  R equirements come in a variety of forms and level of details.  Well defined and thought out requirements  have demonstrated time and time again to reduce development time, increase quality and lower the cost of a software project.  Projects that lack specific requirements quickly fall into many of the typical traps of project failure. In this era of agile, mobile and ever faster-paced world of today, some teams question whether managing requirements are still relevant today.   Well I say... [More]

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J ust like the famous (mis)quote of Mark Twain, rumors of the demise of the requirements management tool IBM Rational DOORS are not only exaggerations but in fact untrue. I’d like to put straight here some of the myths and misunderstanding that I’ve heard and seen perpetuated: Myth: IBM is discontinuing support and development for the DOORS 9.x series Truth: IBM continues to develop the DOORS 9.x series with the same level of development resources. We have new functionality... [More]

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Today we have with us Mia McCroskey at Emerging Health Montefiore Information Technology who was recognized as IBM Champion this year. She shares with us her thoughts about the requirements management domain. Welcome to IBM family! It¹s a great pleasure to have you with us as an IBM Champion. Congratulations, How do you feel? I am honored to be recognized in this way not just this year but for the past several years that I have been asked to present my team's stories at Innovate. It may seem... [More]

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We have with us today Bruce Powel Douglass. He doesn't need an intro for most of us -- Embedded Software Methodologist. Triathlete. Systems engineer. Contributor to UML and SysML specifications. Writer. Black Belt. Neuroscientist. Classical guitarist. High school dropout. Bruce Powel  Douglass, who has a doctorate in neurocybernetics from the USD Medical School, has over 35 years of experience developing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments. He is... [More]

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On Thursday 14 March I presented on an IBM sponsored Dr Dobbs webcast on the topic of ‘3 Reasons to Throw Away Your Requirements Documents’. If you didn’t catch the webcast, you can view it on-demand and download the slides . If you did attend I h ope you enjoyed it and i n this blog post I want to an swer some of the q uestions t hat I didn' t get time to cover in the webcast, so scroll down to see if I 've covered your question here . But first, for tho se of you who didn't make it, he re 's a... [More]

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  Today we have with us, Theresa Kratschmer writing about the importance of metrics in requirements management. Theresa Kratschmer is a senior software engineer who joined IBM T.J. Watson Research in 1996.  There she worked on defect analysis, requirements, and Orthogonal Defect Classification deployment. In 2010, Theresa moved to sales where she is a technical specialist focusing on the Rational Jazz products. Previous to joining IBM, Theresa developed software for real-time, graphics, and... [More]

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Hope you enjoyed and benefited from reading our Managing Your Requirements 101 - A Refresher Series . Today we have with us our first guest blogger of the year, Anthony Kesterton.     Anthony Kesterton is a Technical Consultant in the Financial Services Sector for IBM Rational in the United Kingdom. He has a wide experience in IT development including many years teaching, mentoring and using various IBM Rational tools, as both an end-user and as an IBM employee. He is a regular contributor on... [More]

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