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Daily Status Meetings
Daily status meetings seem like a good idea, but if they are not done correctly, they are guaranteed to reduce the productivity of the development team.
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Leading a Design Meeting
Leading a design meeting is a skill that you can cultivate. Here are some best practices that I have found useful.
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Product Development Lessons from a Model Car Kit
How important is integration planning to the success of a project? A model car kit provides a big clue.
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Why is my project late?
There are many things that can delay a project. In this post I use a fishbone diagram to list and categorize them.
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What is a Trade Study?
A trade study is a tool that can help project teams make wise decisions. They can also be manipulated to give preferred decisions rather than wise decisions
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What is Systems Engineering?
An Engineering Discipline Systems Engineering is a discipline whose practitioners design things that are complex and useful. The complex and useful things that we design are usually manufactured objects such as space probes, aircraft or medical devices. But we can also apply our skills to the design of social systems. To do our work, we…
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Buildings speak. Do we like what they say?
What do buildings that we work in tell us? How do they affect our productivity and happiness?
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Tulips and Stepping Stones
A careless gardener may place a stepping stone over a tulip bulb hidden dormant in the ground. As the tulip emerges from its bulb the next spring and grows upward toward the light, it encounters the stone. It expends extra energy to grow around the obstacle and eventually emerges, twisted and stunted, from the edge…