Project Administrator
With the release of PACE V4+ a new Admin type has be implemented called Project Administrator. This was a big administrative time savings for me as i ended up having to administer all of the projects of the different groups. Now i can give the Project administrator Role to someone and let them handle the [...]
Requirement IDs
I see a lot of requirement documents that use the Paragraph id as the Requirement ID and i find this trouble some. The problem with this is that when you add a new paragraph or delete one your id changes. This changing of the ID number makes it hard to keep track of what is [...]
New RM Tools
Been reviewing a lot of new RM tools the last month. Some are old standards and some are new kids on the block. Seems that there are two things going on at this time one lots of companies dropping DOORs and the new tools are looking more like social media.
PACE Word Interface Offline
No matter what tool you use when capturing requirements from a word document the capture is only as good as the document format. If the document is not in a consistent format its impossible for an automated tool to capture what you want in a consistent way. So the last thing i want to do [...]
Cradle
Cradle is another capable requirements management tool designed to be a enterprise solution. Best suited for software projects but still very flexible. My main issue is that it uses a of the grid database that most people have never heard of. Best thing they could do is port it over to MySQL, Oracle, or MS [...]
What is a Baseline
When all of the Requirements have been reviewed by the stakeholders and approve a baseline set of requirements is established. The baseline is the starting point for your planning of both time and cost. This is the starting point but as we know it will change. As we move forward with the project we will [...]
Better Requirements thru Less Paper
As a Systems Engineer it is always a battle to get the design engineers to create requirements. They just want to get to the design part or yell to the heavens that its COTs and we don’t need Requirements. Either way when we do get to the requirements I find that a lot of people [...]
CSV Files Not Created Equal
All CSV files are not the same. I just had a issue when working with a CSV export from another Requirements Management Tool was not importing correctly into PACE. It looked fine when we opened it in Excel to make sure the data was clean but we were having a problem with the column counts. [...]
Working With CSV Imports
No Mater what requirements tool you work with at some point you are going to be using Comma Separated Values (CSV) to import objects into your tool. Most often you will open them in MS Excel to work the data. What i find is that excel tries to help you and reformats certain types of [...]
PACE Screen Real estate
As we all know when working with Web Based tools that screen real estate can be a bother and PACE is not different. So two easy ways to get more is to increase your resolution some and to use the F11 function key to get ride of all of the browsing menu items. This will [...]