ISO 25010, "Systems and software engineering - System and software quality models" was published in March 2011.

The ISO 25010 standard defines 2 broad non-functional categories of requirements, "Quality in use" and "Product quality", articulated in 13 characteristics, many of which are further subdivided into sub-characteristics. This new standard replaces the previous ISO 9126 standard, heavily used both in requirements management and in testing.

To find out more, see my pdf presentation: http://www.analisi-disegno.com/requisiti/ISO25010-en.pdf

What will year 2012 has in store for RG? The way I see there is not much change in the process. However the content will change. With increasing connected-ness between business entities within and without the organizations, it is but natural to expect that the business are increasingly unable to predict their business state neither in terms of products, prices, policies and position.

Look at the curtain raiser for CES 2012. The offerings are so vast that one will probably wear your seven league shoes looking the show.

I’m kicking off 2012 with a couple of things I just don’t get. Here’s the second one: What exactly is a ‘conceptual data model’? Why in the world is it called that instead of just ‘concept model’?

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Did you ever pause for a while to ponder the meaning of the term “data”? Most of us don’t. The term is so familiar and pervasive we simply take it for granted. For IT professionals, “data” is about as basic as it gets.

Taking terms for granted, unfortunately, is the surest path to confusion. It’s the deep assumptions about the terms lying at the very heart of a subject matter that usually trips us up. So let’s take a moment to examine the meaning of “data”.