Designed for software engineers, developers, testers and managers, our webcast series addresses the challenging problems facing software-centric systems today. If you’re looking for innovative methods and timely information delivered by technology experts in their field, then this webcast series is for you. For more information, contact us at webcasts@321gang.com or call us at 877-820-0888.
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Selecting a Requirements Management tool is daunting enough, selecting one with scalability, years of proven experience and fits all realms of industry now reduces your choice to one. IBM Rational DOOR. Now I have selected DOORS, which DOORS fits me? There are a lot of questions you must ask yourself. Do I have to adhere to strict process and audit trail scrutiny? Do I need a commercial database? Do I need a database for complex systems? Do I need a light-weight database to help my infrastructure? All these need to be answered prior to choosing which DOORS is right for you.
Rational DOORS now has all the background of every industry around the country – Rational DOORS Next Generation has less administrative, complex traceability ease but has more granular re-use.
IBM has a migration path for you if you choose DOORS normal and wish to move to DOORS NG later.
We want to show you the difference between the two tools in this session to help you make the right choice
Managers are always interested in asking questions like this one about the project DOORS requirements management database: ”How many of these kinds of requirements do we have now?” Options for providing an answer include creating custom views or developing DXL scripts in DOORS. However, another alternative is to provide on-demand metrics data. It is straightforward to create module level DXL attributes that can provide desired data, equivalent to running a simple or compound filter query in DOORS. This data is pulled into a master module called the Module of Metrics (MoM), which is accessible at any time by any DOORS user. Several examples of these DXL attributes are shown, as well as the DXL code to display the data in the MoM module. Minimal knowledge of DXL scripting is needed to modify the DXL attributes or to create new ones. The MoM approach can provide desired metrics data during the rapid adaptation of proven systems.
Rational’s Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM) helps pull together siloed engineering data enabling more informed and expedient decision making
Most systems organizations have engineering information and knowledge spread across a variety of disparate tools. Engineers must navigate data across multiple sources to understand, query, and review various aspects of their system, which at best slows their understanding and at worse leaves gaps in their system knowledge. Business demands including decreased cycle times and the continuous release cycle for products can no longer tolerate this silo-ed approach to engineering information.
In this webcast, you will see how the Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM) helps you visualize, organize and manage your lifecycle data. RELM enables product teams to search and query for engineering data across multiple data sources and locations. With an ability to analyze the relationships of data from multiple sources, product teams can make much more effective engineering decisions. RELM will enable teams to answer questions such as, “What impact does a change to stakeholder requirements have on the rest of the engineering lifecycle data including lower level requirements, models, change and quality artifacts?”
As systems become more complex, engineers face significant challenges understanding, validating, communicating and evolving system requirements and design decisions. This talk shows how applying modeling to the system development lifecycle can help resolve many challenges and effectively drive the entire systems lifecycle development from requirements to design to implementation to validation. The benefits demonstrated include more effective communication of system behavior, earlier validation of system behavior (prior to hardware and code being available), tracing between system requirements, design elements and tests, and finally, effectively managing the system’s evolving requirements and design.
Please join 321 Gang’s Brad Ebert for a presentation and discussion of the capabilities of DOORS and Rational Team Concert (also applies to Change and ClearQuest) when they are integrated using OSLC.
Capabilities discussed will include:
-Linking Work Items to Requirements to understand which Requirements have been Implemented
-Traceability from Requirements to Code/Artifact Changes
-Placing DOORS Modules under Formal Configuration Management and Process Control
Join us in the New Year to help extend the capabilities of your current tool-sets
Intended Use Validation (IUV) is used by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish documented evidence which provides a high degree of assurance that a specific business system will consistently produce results that meet predetermined specifications and quality attributes. Many IBM clients use Rational DOORS to manage requirements for their products in a highly-regulated and extremely competitive environment.
Rational DOORS must undergo IUV for each new feature and product revision used by research and development teams.
This session will introduce the audience to some of the issues encountered and overcome by clients in validating the DOORS product for their use.
Audience members will take away:
1 – Understanding of FDA requirements for IUV of Quality Affect software in class 3 medical devices.
2 – Best practices for creating documented evidence of Intended Use Validation.
3 – An Introduction to components of the Rational solution for Medical Device Manufacturers
In this webinar we will discuss and show how to use the OSLC API to manipulate RTC work items from any machine. We will demonstrate how to create new work items, find existing work items, and move work items through their process. The concepts learned here can be applied to creating custom tool integrations, or custom command line interfaces to Rational Team Concert work items.
IBM-Rational recently released version 4.0 of Rational Team Concert (4.0). RTC 4.0 offers many important enhancements for both large and small organizations, complex systems as well as agile project. This new version provides something for everyone. Some of the new 4.0 features discussed in the presentation include:
Please join us for an engaging discussion of RTC 4.0’s valuable new features.
Join co- presenters, Tim McKemy, Senior Solutions Consultant, 321 Gang and Kerry Wagner, Army AMRDEC SED CSE, to learn more about modeling the architecture of large systems-of-systems projects using SysML. The presentation will include the key concepts that make SysML effective in modeling systems, examples from actual large scale SysML models, suggestions on conducting trade studies and evaluating options with SysML, and tips on how to structure SysML models to support very large systems-of-systems architectures.
Many large organizations want to adopt agile development methodologies as a means of delivering software to customers and internal stakeholders more quickly and efficiently in “bite-sized” increments. However large projects can pose significant challenges to agility. IBM Software Group, with almost 30,000 engineers in 84 locations, started its agile transformation in 2006. While this journey continues today, extensive improvements in quality, time-to-market, and customer satisfaction show that the rewards of agile adoption far outweigh the obstacles. IBM also learned that a haphazard implementation of agile may result in more frequent development “turns”. but can also fail to deliver true business benefits.
This talk presents many tips and lessons learned using RTC in large, complex system deployments. The practices focus on configuration management, planning, team collaboration (notifications, dashboards), and project area managements (teams, process, timelines, categories). We also discuss challenges encountered moving to RTC and ways to address them.
