PaR - Processes as Requirements

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  next Monthly: Sa 15^th Nov 2025 at 4^pm >UTC⁺¹<
  topic: Really simple processes - all you need
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Did your processes become a heavyweight project backpack?
And not a lightweight intrinsic helping approach?

It gets better when processes are designed as requirements.
These requirements can be reused and improved by the projects.
They also can be linked to regulatory standards as requirements.
And to product requirements as platforms in product families.

>PaRamount< - simple explanation (from the introduction chapter of The Book)
>PaRade< - 5 challenges with 5 keywords and 5 potential PaR solutions
>PaRis< - PaR information system (graphical overview of the words)

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News and Updates

• Sorry, I have to skip the Oct-Monthly due to some very important customer workshop. In the Nov-Monthly let's talk about really simple process design that really works. That's all you need, you just have to do it.
• In the Oct-Monthly let's talk about really simple process design that really works. That's all you need, you just have to do it.

• Sorry for the problem with the .ics calendar file of the monthly this time. I'm happy that the direct dial-in worked anyway.

• Let's talk about Test-Cases, Test-Runs, Test-Plans with PaR. I can show an example, implemented with easeRequirements, a famous requirements plug-in tool for Jira.

• Sadly for the very first time in years I have to drop a community sessions.
• I will attend a 2-day workshop 14/15.Jul at a huge customer for applying new efficient processes to the platform teams.
• This work is planned until end of year but I will join onsite only on Wed/Thu each week.

• At the community monthly 15^th May as well as June I can give an overview of team collaboration with PaR.
• With PaR it's ideal having teams for standards, processes, projects and platforms, working closely together by bidirectional traceability of the requirements.
• This topic is also planned to be presented at the ESE conference in December 2025. It is a dedicated chapter in The Book also.

• For the community monthly 15^th Apr let's discuss how to create a compliant process design efficiently.
• Yes, I repeat that topic from March, because the 15^th was a Saturday then and nobody wanted to waste the weekend for PaR ;-)
• Watch out, we switched to summer time on the last weekend of March (as usual), so it is CEST now instead of CET, i.e. now UTC+2 instead of UTC+1.

• I got an invitation to speak at the next ESE congress in Sindelfingen from 1^st to 4^th Dec 2025.
• For the community monthly 15^th Mar let's discuss how to create a compliant process design efficiently.

• For the community monthly 15^th Feb let's further discuss how process requirements with roles and input/output work-products can be defined.
• I presented this approach also at the inhouse easeSolutions congress live in Munich on 13^th Feb, so the presentation is fresh in the mind ;-)
• Further more, I will describe this approach in The Book in the chapter for process design, together with a diagram showing the relations.

• For the community monthly 15^th Jan in the new year I plan to show how process requirements with roles and input/output work-products can be defined.
• 2024 is over now, so I transferred 2023 to the History page.

• ESE conference was interesting again - I even sold some copies of The Book and gave away some copies of The Booklet.
• Many attendees of our workshop stated that they have a platform approach, but obviously none of them defined a process for platform based engineering.

• The community session on 15^th of December will be on Sunday, 3^rd Advent, so if anybody wants to join, we can have interesting free talks - I (Ralf) will be online.
• I will support Martin Becker from Fraunhofer IESE at the workshop on 2^nd of Dec at the ESE conference in Sindelfingen.
• It will be a compact seminar of 6^hrs titled: "Mit plattformbasierten Ansätzen Synergien strategisch nutzen". See event at the top right of this page.
• The community session on 15^th of November will focus on process activities with roles and inputs/outputs.

• Sorry for skipping October due to illness.

• The community session on 15^th of September happened on very short notice - sorry for that.
• The next one on 15^th of October will give an introduction to PaR newbies again. Feel free to join in!

• At the next community session on 15^th of August we will give an introduction to PaR newbies. Everybody and every question is very welcome!

• The live congress at Ease Solutions in Munich was a good opportunity to present PaR and meet people live for interesting discussions. Thanks again!

• Let's continue this interesting discussion about requirements and AI language models at the next Community Monthly on 15^th of July.
• As usual please find the calendar file or the direct dial-in-link in the top right corner of this welcome-page of the PaR website.

• At the next Community Monthly on 15^th of June let's discuss how requirements and AI language models may get together.
• Can Regulatory Standards Reqs, Corporate Process Reqs and Product Reqs and their appliance in a project come together in an AI language model?
• Can we then ask AI to find the compliance gaps? Can we get good answers about the requirements - whichever - from AI tools like Copilot?

• On Tu 16^th Apr there will be a short presentation of the PaR Monthly topic at Ease Solutions online in the R4J User Group.
• On Th 11^th Jul there will be a live congress at Ease Solutions in Munich where Ralf will present reusing variants of processes with R4J according to PaR.
• For both events get in touch with either Ralf or Bernhard or ease solutions in general - we're just a call away.

• The next Community Monthly in April will address the 3^rd PaR Splash: "Platforms".
• For the Monthly event remember that we switched from winter time to summer time, i.e. from CET to CEST, i.e. from UTC⁺¹ to UTC⁺².

• The next Community Monthly in March will address the 2^nd PaR Splash: "Compliance".

• The next Community Monthly in February will address the 1^st PaR Splash: "Intro".
• On the page "PaRade" I now highlight the 5 keywords of the 5 challenges and changed the introduction a bit accordingly.
• In the first half year of 2024 I want to show "The Splashes" one after the other on LinkedIn again in a monthly rate and the first one addresses these 5 keywords.
• Then I want to relate the Monthly community event to The Splashes accordingly.

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