Mistakes are unavoidable – that sounds unpleasant, but it isn't necessarily so. With good error management, we create a conscious approach to dealing with errors: The particularly nasty ones are prevented, some can be intercepted, and non-critical ones can even be allowed. ...

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Yesterday, Saturday, November 19, 2016, the Modeling Craftsmanship Camp took place in Hanover. A group of approximately 35 people interested in modeling spent their Saturday exchanging ideas, expanding their knowledge, and networking. ...

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Things were better in the old days. Who hasn't heard this saying? It's often used when ever more processes and regulations rob us of the joy of work. But is it even possible to work today without getting lost in a jungle of processes? ...

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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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