The latest release of IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) delivers valuable enhancements across every product, bringing value to every role and every use case our tools support. The new features and improvements reflect our continued commitment to improving user productivity, accelerating workflows, enhancing change and configuration management, modernizing reporting and insights, driving digital transformation, operating […]

I am super excited to share a new blog post by Daniel Moul that walks you through our focus for the first wave of AI-powered automation for the ELM products. The blog introduces the Requirements Intelligence Assistant that is intended to help answer questions about your module in DOORS Next. The Assistant sits next to […]

I am happy to announce the release of IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) Automotive Compliance 1.1, which is designed to be a fast path to implement the IBM ELM tools with engineering processes that help you meet your compliance obligations. This release introduces new guidance for compliance with the ASPICE for Cybersecurity standard and enhancements […]

I am happy to share with you that some of the most frequently requested enhancements have made their way into the new IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next v7.1 release. And certainly, the most requested feature by far is the ability to create more complex filters on modules using Boolean operators, such as AND and […]

As mentioned by Daniel Moul in his “Coming soon: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management V7.0.3” blog post, we have focused our enhancements across ELM in five categories. For this upcoming DOORS Next V7.0.3 release, we have specifically concentrated our efforts on mainly two of those categories: user productivity and operating at scale. First, I am very […]

Recently, Scaled Agile released SAFe® 6.0 which offers the newest and most effective Lean-Agile practices, enabling forward-thinking enterprises to navigate today’s rapidly changing challenges and opportunities. SAFe 6.0 is a comprehensive update from version 5.1 and includes many new and advanced practices alongside a new Big Picture and terminology updates. I am very pleased to […]

We continue to develop and support DOORS 9 and DOORS Web Access in parallel with DOORS Next, and I am pleased to announce the general availability of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access 9.7.2.7 on IBM Fix Central. DOORS 9.7.2.7 contains the following enhancements: · The web browser technology embedded in the […]

IBM Rational Quality Assistant (RQA) 3.1.x is the most recent version of IBM’s tool for improving the quality of your organization’s requirements. RQA integrates with IBM DOORS Next and IBM DOORS 9 to score your requirements based on criteria consistent with the INCOSE Guide for Writing Requirements. RQA pre-trained IBM Watson AI to detect 10 […]

Everyone has demands on their time so learning new things, especially potentially complex tools, is not an easy thing to fit into our busy schedules. Quick Starts are short, focused, introductory hands-on labs that are designed to take less than two hours to complete so a very small investment of time. Whether you want to […]

We know many of you are planning to upgrade from V6 to V7.0.2 this quarter or next, and to make this as smooth as possible we have put extra effort into our latest ELM 7.0.2 iFix (iFix008), which is now available. It’s the minimum level we recommend for all deployments: those already on 7.0.2 and […]