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NEW WEBINAR Overcoming the top three obstacles faced by young project managers in their first few years
From obstacles to triumphs
From obstacles to triumphs: A project manager’s early career roadmap
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Tag Archives: systems engineering
Does INCOSE Have Any Principles?
The AI team takes a deep dive into the 15 INCOSE Systems Engineering Principles and an iterative Agentic AI analysis of those principles. The AI team critique INCOSE for not defining principles, but stating ‘so-called’ principles as “transcendent truths” that explicitly avoid “how-to” methods, effectively turning engineering into philosophy. True engineering principles, such as Ohm’s Law, must be mathematical, predictive, and falsifiable. An analysis of the language in the 15 principles found that 89% of … Continue reading
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Applying Total Quality Management to systems engineering
The AI team take a deep dive into a 30-year old book, “Applying Total Quality Management to Systems Engineering,” explores various facets of systems engineering within a Total Quality Management (TQM) framework. It details the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), outlining phases from requirements definition and design to implementation, testing, and maintenance. The author emphasizes the importance of cost-effective engineering, process improvement, and risk mitigation, introducing concepts like anticipatory testing and metrics for product and process quality. Furthermore, the text examines contractual considerations, proposal development, and the critical role of effective communication and teamwork in achieving successful project outcomes, concluding with … Continue reading
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So what should we be teaching systems engineers and project managers?
In my previous blog I pointed out that one of the reasons for project failures was that we were not teaching the right things to systems engineers and project managers. This leads to the question, what should we be teaching them? If you ask most systems engineers as to what the system they are developing should do once it is placed into operation, they will tell you to look at the requirements. So when I … Continue reading