[i11] Be carefull with your “Merry Xmas”-greeting …

… it could blow up your system or delay your project by several months! Note: As a tribute to christmas time, this blog-post is the result of the challenging question, if there is a connection between “requirements engineering” and “xmas“. It is! You want to know why? Read about a system with an interesting requirements Read More …

[i08] At the boundary to a new year …

How do you spend these days at the very end of a year? “Hidden” between Christmas and New Year this period often feels as if it is somehow “protected” from the regular business activities. Many people are on vacation – you, your business partners, clients, … (maybe even your service providers ;-(  ). It is Read More …

[i07] Presentation on innovative safety methodology at ISSC2015

Together with my co-authors, Dieter Fasol and Peter Bunus, I am happy to announce that we successfully submitted the contribution “A Model-Based Safety and Dependability Methodology for Missile Safety Engineering” at the 33rd International System Safety Conference (ISSC2015) taking place right this week, Aug 24-27 2015 in San Diego, California. ISSC 2015 San Diego The Read More …

[i05] Collaborative Tools for System- and Safety-Engineering – Ongoing Discussions

What are real „collaborative” tools in the system engineering process of complex systems? – Throughout today’s product development process there are a lot of typical islands of data, e.g. DOORS for Requirement Management, Visio for the Architecture drawings, Simulink for the analysis, FaultTree+ for Safety-/Risk-assessment, … and MS-Office to glue it all together. Independent of Read More …