Michael Knop, Author at SUSE Communities

June 17, 2021 1:17 pm

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Jira as Requirements Management Tool (RMT)

Safety-critical industries can be flippantly defined as those where a software failure could kill you. Think automotive, aviation, or medical devices as examples. Safety-critical industries use heavy processes to ensure that (especially but not exclusively) software is developed in a safe manner. Heavy processes often need heavy tools. In terms of requirements management, those heavy […]

By: Michael Knop

December 17, 2020 10:39 am

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An ASPICE Overview

Now that you're well-versed in the Waterfall Model and V-Model, it's time to take the step up into a wider world of ASPICE. I won't bore you with the details of its pedigree but ASPICE descends from a line of ISO documents concerned with setting up standards around software development. ASPICE stands for Automotive SPICE […]

By: Michael Knop

December 8, 2020 12:59 pm

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The V-Model

Having suffered through my adoration of the venerable Waterfall Model (WM), it's time to expand upon it and bring us out of the bronze age of system development and into the age of steam with the V-Model (VM). The VM is similar to the WM in that it promotes a flow from requirements through architecture […]

By: Michael Knop

November 30, 2020 12:21 pm

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Developer Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Waterfall Model

Everyone loves to hate the Waterfall Model (WM) and extoll the virtues of modern development methodologies. But while people are rolling their eyes at the mere mention of the WM, they forget that it was one of the first attempts at a systematic approach to complex system development. Few first attempts turn out to be […]