At the Requirements Engineering Barcamp 2016 in Cologne, I had a session on precisely this topic: requirements on the one hand, and architecture on the other. These two aspects are often covered by different tools. In many cases, ...

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When writing requirements, every word counts. Requirements are usually written in sentence templates in English. English is the standard nowadays because products are approved worldwide, or development teams and customers are located globally. It is particularly important that ...

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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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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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The task of a system architect is to break down a system into simpler subsystems. These subsystems are then initially developed separately and later merged. This merging is called integration. But how does such an integration process work? ...

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