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Oh—also—do you know what software out there is already used for managing this complexity? Thanks again!
by virgil_disgr4ce 9y ago
Oh—also—do you know what software out there is already used for managing this complexity? Thanks again!
- zardo 9y agoI think Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the buzzword your looking for.
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoPLM I'm familiar with, though none of the ones I've seen seem to focus in any particular was on the requirements/specification end of the equation...
- zardo 9y agoAh okay. So PLM systems would be used to store and manage the requirements, the requirement documents are going to be, at least in my corner of the world... Word and/or Excel templates.
- dfox 9y agoWhich is only narrow subset of what PLM system does. PLM is generally about tracking what data artifacts (drawings, manufacturer datasheets and so, formal specifications are somewhat secondary to that) are relevant for given assembly and how such subassemblies fit together on high level.
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoYes, that's much more of what I am aware of in the context of PLM. As I wrote in a sibling comment, I'm interested in improving the storage and representation of the requirements/spec itself...
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoRight, and this is actually exactly the area that I am interesting in improving: providing a canonical, systematic way to store and represent the actual requirements & specifications, and provide ways to feed into other software such as PLM or project management, etc.
- pjmlp 9y agoOn my corner of the world it would UML, using tools like Enterprise Architect.
- rubidium 9y agoJAMA is a more recent one that's fairly modern feeling. I tried to get my company to get it but they didn't bit. (pricey)
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoThank you for this--extremely relevant! This is very very close to what I've been looking for / researching...
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoI've used DOORS. It was adequate, though not a pleasure to use. (It might have been a pleasure if the alternative was doing it manually...)
- Jtsummers 9y agoHaving done it manually, DOORS is a dream. I haven’t used a recent incarnation of it though. It’s UI circa 2008-2010 was entirely mediocre but sufficient for the task.