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craig_kautzman_donaldson_com
Ideator I
6 months ago

Words of wisdom from Requirements Engineering Users?

Hello everyone,

     My company is standing up a demo of Requirements Engineering to propose for use across the enterprise, and I was hoping some of you will share your hard-earned wisdom. We've just gone live with Release 29 this year and are still onboarding users. We're currently using Innovator to run our product release and change processes and are beginning an investigation into making the Requirements Engineering module available to our user base as well. Crawl. Walk. Run.

     For those that have gone through an implementation of Requirements Engineering, would you be willing to share your experience? I'm especially curious about how your internal customers embraced the use of Requirements Engineering as well as the challenges that you ran into along the way during the implementation. This is more of a business adoption question than one of technical investigation.

     I'm grateful for any and all wisdom you'd like to share. 

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  • angela's avatar
    angela
    Catalyst II
    6 months ago

    Upgrade your R29 Innovator so you can use Requirement Engineering R33. With the previous version you will not "run" but stumble around. RE R33 introduces drag&drop and this version is much more intuitive to use. If you plan to upgrade, wait a bit more for Innovator R37, cause it should hopefully introduce relationship tab counters, which will help you a lot. Don´t let them fool you with R33-R36, they are fine for RE, but I would wait for R37. 

    I don´t use RE in a production environment, but played around with the app. In general I would customize the feature in a few corners. Example: Current RE adds two relationships to the Part ItemType. "Requirements" and "Requirement Documents". From my POV it´s an obscure double structure that will be confusing and hard to maintain on the long run.  Which one of the relationships shall we use? In my case I just would use one, or auto fill the second one.

    Don´t see an Aras app as something that will always fit your way of working to 100%. The apps are like unisex T-shirts that fit most people somehow, but may not be perfect for your exact body shape.

     

     

  • craig_kautzman_donaldson_com's avatar
    craig_kautzman_donaldson_com
    Ideator I
    6 months ago

    I greatly appreciate the feedback Angela! We are planning on keeping up with the upgrade schedule and I'm hoping we'll have R33 up and running before an implementation of RE would go to production. Valuable insight. Thank you!