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 […]

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 […]

Do you want to accelerate the digital transformation of your business processes, do you want to seamlessly share data across your business, do you want to make the promised benefits of digital threads real for your company? Join OSLCFest, a virtual conference, on November 15-17 to learn first-hand from OSLC experts about the state of […]

Many companies are focused on accelerating the digital transformation of their business processes, but innovative companies are also focused on the digital transformation of their engineering processes. This transformation is also known as “digital engineering’ as originally coined by the US DoD. The primary objectives of the digital transformation of engineering are to leapfrog your […]

At IBM, we know modern requirements management. IBM DOORS pioneered modern requirements management software starting in the 1990’s, and through continued focus and product advancement IBM is recognized as an industry leader in requirements management solutions today. As systems engineering and development has matured over the last thirty years so has IBM’s engineering solutions. Today […]

Come learn about key productivity enhancements available in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS from the experts and lunch is on us. Register for the Grab a beer with an IBM engineer seminar where IBM subject matter experts will discuss and demo key DOORS enhancements. IBM is continually enhancing DOORS with new functionality and its important to […]

Just another hack? MacGyver was a TV character placed in daunting situations with only his wits and a few simple items to save the day. According to a recent survey* the number one issue in product delivery today is unrealistic expectations – what is more unrealistic than MacGyver creating a defibrillator out of candlesticks, microphone […]

Don’t get caught A trap is a position or situation from which it is difficult or impossible to escape. Getting caught in product or software development requirement traps can be problematic. The traps of bad requirements definition and management result in cost overruns, missed deadlines, poorly designed products, and a failure to deliver what the […]

At Innovate this week, we’ve been showing several advanced features that our Requirements Management team is working on.  It’s been exciting to see the interest in the new usability, scripting, and performance features of IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation V5.0, but even more exhilarating to witness the response to Rational DOORS Next Generation with Configuration Management beta. In addition […]

Over the last ten months the DOORS Next Generation team released four betas with increasing capability and performance.  It’s been fun to see the capabilities emerge milestone to milestone (lots of work, but fun and gratifying too).  We’ve enjoyed the interaction we’ve had with those of you in our beta and design partner programs as […]