Modprod 2010

So Modprod 2010 has come to an end and as last year I enjoyed the conference. Besides the obvious networking, highlights for me were the Requirements Modeling session with Kristian and the keynote by Hilding on Modellica for embedded systems. With regards to “our” performance I’ve only heard positive feeback on Gunilla’s tutorial “MBSE in a Lean context” and I think my 20-minute talk on Information Platforms was ok but next time I will put more emphasis on “what” rather than “why”.
During Kristian’s session we had a discussion around the difference between abstraction and design… arguably sometimes obvious but still he drew a quick example serving as a good mental reminder.

Regardless how obvious it is what’s abstraction and what’s design above I think mistakes are common in practice.

What is requirements?

Just finalized my analysis on Requirements Management Systems and don’t you just love statements from tool vendors such as: 

• X will improve your quality 2x
• X will make you innovate faster by 50%

Is it just me or isn’t it promising a tad too much to say that a requirement system will make you Innovate faster?

 

Anyhow, interesting market and Doors from IBM (prev. Telelogic) still keep a firm grip of most shares it seems. RMS through thin-clients is hot, in the cloud is even hotter… but where does requirements management belong?  

 

Would you prefer the traditional setup, a “thin” setup with in-house server/web-solution or a distributed hosted service through the “cloud”?

 

Or maybe you would prefer the agile puritan’s choice - “no RMS”?

 

Ah just went back to the webpage of the tool that promised me to innovate faster and just saw that if I use their RMS I will on top of it all satisfy my customers. It’s almost too good to be true, it’s “everything out of the box” all over again.

 

Raggmunk

Lunch at the office today together with our sister company Know IT Business Consulting. Got a chance to present Technology Management and what we do/think/live/breathe - from my perspective. Always good to be forced to present what you do, makes you think… what do you actually do?

The presentation went well with some good questions and reflections that I will keep in mind ‘til next time. Technology Management is a rather interesting concept since it isn’t written in stone yet, it adapts over time as I (and my colleagues) progress and evolve. For the interested in the subject you can always travel back to the future and redo your masters at Lund University... or just ask...

The rest of the day has been quite hectic with a very deep and fast dive into requirement management systems; both traditional and more hyped cloud solutions. For the interested I should have a decent exposition of the current market trends by tomorrow.

Well, blog-break officially over, it is time to plunge back into the RMS world for a while and let an echo play my counterpart.