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Archives for October 2012

Review: Requirements Management with Enterprise Architect 9.3

Introduction In order to manage the requirements of our energy harvester project we use Enterprise Architect (EA) from Sparx Systems, an Australian company. Enterprise Architect is a (UML-based) modeling and design tool which integrates…well…everything: requirement management, project management, database engineering, business modeling, code engineering, test management… Really, the list of features (click here) is endless. […]

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From stakeholder to system requirements

System requirements and their organization Given our stakeholder requirements and some basic domain knowledge, we can now initiate the system requirements. Instead of extending the rather informal and unstructured stakeholder requirements, we prefer to start with a brand new set of requirements which is organized in a hierarchical structure (divide and conquer!) in which: the […]

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Domain knowledge and application information

Introduction Building the right product requires customer input and domain knowledge. Building the product right requires a technical expertise and (possibly) a development process. In this post we focus on improving our domain knowledge. As mentioned in one of our previous blog articles, the more domain knowledge we acquire, the better we can define the […]

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Stakeholder requirements

Introduction End-users, developers, testers, production, project managers, business, sales… they all have their interest in the system and are called stakeholders. At first, it is the task of the system architect to collect those interests (or concerns as recent literature suggests [ref]) and to resolve (potential) conflicts. Communication is key since stakeholders do not necessarily […]

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