Good engineering practices, tools and people give organizations a competitive edge, enabling teams to be more productive with fewer errors while developing increasingly complex products and systems. Our focus for 7.0.2 has been increasing the productivity of practitioners using the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management solution. Below are some of the high points. Making use of […]

For IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (PUB) to generate rich text, we need the rich text data in a format that PUB accepts. If you consider UseCase description or Class Description returned by IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody (Rhapsody), it is in RTF format. The Rhapsody data source schema allows us to choose the […]

In this article we will explore how an Engineering Insights (ENI) view author can perform the visual reporting based on the Link Validity data. Link Validity The link validity indicates whether the meaning of a link is satisfied by the content of the two artifacts connected by the link. An artifact’s content is the set […]

As part of the recent IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) 7.0.1 release, there are some serviceability-related items to highlight. In Engineering Test Management (ETM), two new resource-intensive scenarios related to exporting to PDF or CSV were registered and documented. As scenario is considered resource-intensive if it is regularly known to drive sufficient load on an […]

This article was written by Bartosz (Bart) Chrabski of SmarterProcess – with some minor contributions from yours truly. You may remember an old western movie titled The Good, the Bad and the Ugly starring Clint Eastwood. Testing can sometimes feel the same way. In today’s dynamic product development arena requirements keep changing and evolving. There […]

The rising complexity of the products and systems being developed globally is driving engineering teams to seek effective model-based engineering practices, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE). Rising compliance demands such as ISO-26262/ASPICE in automotive and DO-178C and ARP4754 for aerospace and defense are driving the need for rigorous change management and lifecycle traceability. At the […]

This new release of IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) brings additional capabilities in all the product areas: agile planning, source control, build, Git integration as well as enterprise extensions. Similarly, in this new release of IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) version 7.0.1, you will find many improvements in several functions including test planning, test execution […]

Building on the themes of ELM 7.0, our next release is just around the corner. Since 7.0.1 has come so soon after 7.0, we recommend that anyone planning to upgrade should go straight to 7.0.1. Highlights of 7.0.1 include the following: Global Configuration Management It’s easier to find and work with just the right set […]

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 […]