The Nature of Engineering Delivery Flow
Anyone who has worked in a large, fast-paced, multi-project engineering organization understands that it can be very difficult to ensure that delivery is efficient and effective given the high degree...
View ArticleSolving Engineering Capacity Problems
Firms never have enough engineering capacity to meet their needs. Down-sizing, hiring freezes, narrow specialist expertise, labour shortages, and increasingly demographics are significant constraints...
View Article6 Hidden Demands On Engineer’s Time
Firms never have enough engineering resources to meet business demands yet projects often overrun in cost and schedule. Today’s engineering work environment is a complex and chaotic mix of market...
View ArticleManaging Engineering WIP
Engineering work in process (WIP) is notoriously difficult to manage because unlike manufacturing WIP you can’t see it. Engineering WIP is information in various forms along the engineering value...
View ArticleEngineering Productivity
Engineering leaders interested in improving their profitability need to understand how the Theory of Constraints can improve engineering productivity and perhaps most importantly under what business...
View ArticleCreativity, Inc. & The Fuzzy Front End
The fuzzy early stages of any idea that offers the potential to create new value involves more art than science and is very difficult to achieve in business. Ed Catmull’s book Creativity, Inc. sheds...
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