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  • What German Automotive Can Learn From China’s EV Speed: Interview with Yuchao Luo25 May 2026
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  • Free Webinar: Interface Management with SysML (plus: Video & Whitepaper)28 July 2025
  • Molomolo African Tech Stories Podcast: Michael Jastram on the Future of MBSE6 June 2025
  • AI and MBSE: Meet Dr. Michael Jastram in 2025 at These 4 Events20 January 2025
  • AI Co-Interviewers suck today! Will they be better tomorrow?9 September 2024
  • Free Online Event: Panel Discussion on the Future of Requirements Engineering in the Age of AI26 August 2024
  • Why Engineering Tools Need an Overhaul: Insights on MBSE from Pari Singh2 July 2024
  • Spaghetti Modeling with MBSE29 May 2024
  • Dr. Michael Jastram Speaking at INCOSE Systems Engineering Day (TdSE)8 August 2023
  • Ivory Tower Modeling with MBSE7 January 2023
  • The 10 Biggest Illusions of Systems Engineering6 September 2022
  • The Power of a One-Pager (And How You Can Put It to Use)1 July 2022
  • 6 Trends in Embedded Systems Development That Will Affect Systems Engineering28 February 2019
  • Dealing with Change in Systems Engineering23 January 2019
  • ReqIF in 2022: Silently Growing14 December 2018
  • How Changan is transforming their product development with MBSE21 November 2018
  • IoT Security: A Tsunami is coming7 November 2018
  • The 4 Elements of IoT development3 October 2018
  • 3 Ways for Writing Black Box Specifications5 September 2018
  • The Vision of the Connected Car: C-V2X in Denver22 August 2018
  • Why it is a great time to be a Systems Engineer (and how to become one)25 July 2018
  • What does the Internet of Things (IoT) Mean for Requirements Engineering?11 July 2018
  • The 3 Technology Trends that Matter in Product Development28 June 2018
  • There must be a better way: Invitation to a virtual panel discussion on disrupting requirements12 April 2018
  • 4 Talks at ReConf 2018 we’d like to see (and 2 by Michael Jastram)15 February 2018
  • Interview with Neil Maiden: Use Goals and Start from the Middle Out16 May 2017
  • 18 Things You Can Do With Your System Models21 March 2017
  • 7 Advantages of Face-to-Face Training2 March 2017
  • Is Eclipse Papyrus Ready for Industry?7 February 2017
  • How to Teach Systems Engineering Awareness: Interview with Paul Schreinemakers24 January 2017
  • European ReqIF Workshop & INCOSE Interview10 January 2017
  • ReqIF.academy: A Library for ReqIF and Requirements Exchange12 October 2016
  • UML Requirements Modeling – an Introduction24 August 2016
  • How to Model Textual Requirements27 July 2016
  • How to Model a Specification29 June 2016
  • What is a Requirements Model?14 June 2016
  • Why Modeling Requirements is Better than the Alternative31 May 2016
  • Will UML Modeling with Papyrus be a success in 2016 and beyond?17 May 2016
  • Why Paper Still Matters in the World of Models20 April 2016
  • The Four Events That You Should Not Miss At ReConf 201626 February 2016
  • Even More New Features in ReqIF Studio21 January 2016
  • Many new features in ReqIF Studio22 December 2015
  • New Blog launched: Systems Engineering Trends30 November 2015
  • Consequent, the ReqIF Validator29 October 2015
  • Beta-Testers Wanted for Binom, the New ReqIF Compare3 September 2015
  • ReqIF in the News (German)15 August 2015
  • Where is ReqIF Today? Survey Results from ReConf 201514 July 2015
  • 8. Juni: Vortrag in Bonn (kostenlos)8 June 2015
  • Why ReqIF is better than RIF3 June 2015
  • Finally See Big Cells as a Whole5 May 2015
  • Creativity in Requirements Engineering: What? Who? When? And how?17 April 2015
  • ISO/IEC 29110 (Part 1): Lightweight Standard-based Software and Systems Engineering27 March 2015
  • ReConf 2015: A Retrospective26 March 2015
  • New Documentation / New Writing / ReConf Special Sale23 February 2015
  • Sprechen Sie deutsch? Or: How to make this blog as useful to you as possible9 February 2015
  • Visualize your requirements (and see the talk at ReConf 2015)29 January 2015
  • Was tun, wenn Office für Anforderungsmanagement aus den nähten platzt? ProR Essentials bei resolut1 January 2015
  • Leitung eines Arbeitspakets von openETCS für die Deutsche Bahn1 January 2015
  • Effektiver Einsatz von Open Source für Standardisierung von ReqIF1 January 2015
  • ProB Validierung für Siemens SAS1 January 2015
  • Effective Use of Open Source for Standardizing ReqIF1 January 2015
  • Production of the Rodin Handbook1 January 2015
  • Work Package Leadership for openETCS on Behalf of Deutsche Bahn1 January 2015
  • What to do if Office-based Requirements Management is Outgrown? ProR Essentials at resolut1 January 2015
  • Erstellung Rodin Handbook1 January 2015
  • ProB Validation for Siemens SAS1 January 2015
  • Best of Eclipse RMF in 201413 December 2014
  • Standards27 November 2014
  • New Stuff: New Committer, New Product, New Importer, New Release25 November 2014
  • formalmind Studio & ProR improvements – and beta program about to start3 October 2014
  • Learn about Requirements and Systems Engineering26 August 2014
  • The Standards Jungle of Systems Engineering26 August 2014
  • Rodin Handbook Now Available in Print20 May 2014
  • ProR 0.10.0 Available Via formalmind Studio – Download Now!22 April 2014
  • Traceability between UML and Requirements with ProR27 March 2014
  • Reporting for ProR – the Results28 February 2014
  • What’s keeping you from using ProR in production?19 February 2014
  • Formal Mind wishes you a peaceful holiday season20 December 2013
  • If you need to comply with ISO 26262, IEC 61508 or similar standards, you may need to work more formal13 November 2013
  • Human Rights and Open Source16 October 2013
  • ReqIF is here – what now?30 September 2013
  • RMF/ProR 0.8.0 available12 August 2013
  • Using RMF to integrate your models2 August 2013
  • Reporting for ProR – We need your opinion!8 July 2013
  • Use Cases with ProR7 July 2013
  • Data Validation & Reverse Engineering17 June 2013
  • Termin vormerken: SysML, formale Semantik und ihre Anwendung beim modellbasierten Testen (27. Mai 2013)15 May 2013
  • Save the date: SysML, formal semantics and their uses in model-based testing (May 27th 2013)15 May 2013
  • Better Link creation with RMF ProR 0.7.010 May 2013

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