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Why Paper Still Matters in the World of Models
tweet share share share share flattr Modeling has been a hot topic for many years, with UML being one of the most popular ones. Models have many advantages: They provide structure, remove redundancies,...
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Will UML Modeling with Papyrus be a success in 2016 and beyond?
tweet share share share share flattr Papyrus is an open source modeling tool that is part of the Eclipse Ecosystem. Those working with Eclipse or those looking for a platform solution may want to have...
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Why Modeling Requirements is Better than the Alternative
tweet share share share share flattr Requirements Modeling Series Introduction Requirements Model Requirements are usually captured in natural language. This is fine for small project and no special...
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What is a Requirements Model?
tweet share share share share flattr Requirements Modeling Series Introduction Requirements Model This is the second part of the mini-series “requirements modeling”. In this article, we create a...
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How to Model a Specification
tweet share share share share flattr Requirements Modeling Series Introduction Requirements Model Model a Specification In the last two articles of this series, we learned what requirements modeling...
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How to Model Textual Requirements
Requirements Modeling Series Introduction Requirements Model Model a Specification Modeling Textual Requirements After laying the foundation for requirements modeling during the last three articles,...
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UML Requirements Modeling – an Introduction
Events for our German readers: Oct 28, 2016 (Nuremberg) – ReqIF Workshop >> Nov 19, 2016 (Hannover) – Modeling Crafstmanship Barcamp >> Requirements Modeling Series Introduction...
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ReqIF.academy: A Library for ReqIF and Requirements Exchange
Some readers of this blog may already have discovered a new website that we silently launched: In September, we made ReqIF.academy available to the public. Face-to-Face ReqIF Training for German...
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Are Barcamps Better for Sharing Engineering Knowledge?
In today’s fast moving world, it is a challenge to stay up to date. Traditionally, there are a number of formats for updating knowledge, including conferences, training workshops (in-house and...
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European ReqIF Workshop & INCOSE Interview
This is just a quick announcement for an upcoming event. We’d like to let you know that a face-to-face ReqIF workshop (English) will take place on April 28, 2017. You have the chance to get all your...
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How to Teach Systems Engineering Awareness: Interview with Paul Schreinemakers
Paul Schreinemakers has over 25 years experience in product development in various domains. Paul started his career as a mechanical engineer with SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research....
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Is Eclipse Papyrus Ready for Industry?
Today’s guest article has been written by Carsten Pitz, who shares his insights about the state of Papyrus for modeling, which is likely to be interest to our readers. In particular, as an Eclipse...
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E-Learning has been all the rage lately, and – let’s be honest – we’ve done our part with the launch of ReqIF.academy. We took all our knowledge of ReqIF and started to put it on-line, mostly free. And...
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18 Things You Can Do With Your System Models
System models are powerful tools that allow improving many aspects of Systems Engineering, from traceability, change management to test case generation. But there is also a dark side: Modeling can...
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Interview with Neil Maiden: Use Goals and Start from the Middle Out
Neil Maiden is Professor of Digital Creativity in the Faculty of Management at the Cass Business School, and co-founder of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City, University of...
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Beta-Testers Wanted for Binom, the New ReqIF Compare
The Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) is used to exchange requirements as the name suggests. But most of the time, you would do more than just one exchange, and if you do this, you may want to...
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Consequent, the ReqIF Validator
The first exchange of requirements using the Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) can be frustrating: There are many tools out there, and there are still some interoperability issues. If a tool...
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New Blog launched: Systems Engineering Trends
Update: SE-Trends is now a huge success in Germany. It has been running for over two years now, accumulating over 100 articles. There are also many discussions taking place. Therefore, we invite you to...
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Many new features in ReqIF Studio
Over the last two months, we put a lot of work into ReqIF Studio: We polished the rough edges and we implemented new features. Maybe you already noticed these, as we rolled some of them out silently,...
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Even More New Features in ReqIF Studio
We announced a number of new features in ReqIF Studio right before Christmas, including better SpecRelations (linking), Validation, ID-Generation and a few more. But we did not stop there, but...
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