How are requirements and architecture related? What is contained in the requirements and what in the architecture? And how do architecture and requirements interact? In this article, I describe this relationship and introduce the SYSMOD ZIGZAG pattern. What and ...

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Sometimes things disappear without a trace – simply vanish. One can then console oneself with statements like "a little loss is to be expected!" This disappearance of things also wreaks havoc in development projects. In the development of embedded systems with multiple ...

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06/20/2016

Help, where does my project stand? Many companies that outsource work to external service providers ask themselves this question. But even the status of internal projects isn't always easy to grasp. Often, the clients or decision-makers can't accurately assess the development status. ...

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I'm delighted that Maik Pfingsten invited me to a podcast interview. We talk about system architects in medical technology, a rather rare breed. It was a new experience for me to answer questions in a podcast interview. ...

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Why on earth did we decide that way back then? Who hasn't wondered during development what the basis was for an architectural decision? When developing complex systems, decisions about... ...

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03/13/2016

This week was the big day. My block lecture course "Systems Engineering in Medical Technology" at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology Georg Simon Ohm took place. It was an exciting and enjoyable experience for me. Participants ...

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