by David | Jun 28, 2017 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
Always Integrate For Project Success In our experience, good systems engineering and good project management always go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. You need to integrate both in order to reduce ambiguity and uncertainty on any complex...
by David | Jun 28, 2017 | Design Definition
Systems Engineering & Integration Terminology The INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, 4th Edition, references ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 for definitions and discussions related to technical and supporting processes that a systems engineer utilizes. The categories we use...
by David | Mar 14, 2017 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
We recently helped a client initiate a project to improve their rig incident reporting process. The first thing we did was insist on building a project charter—something that’s not very common in the industry. A project charter in and of itself is not that...
by David | Oct 13, 2016 | Implementation
In the August 2016 edition of Offshore Magazine, one of the principals of a large project management consulting company advised that you should be watching graphs for inflection points to help alert you that a critical decision is required on your project. Let’s do as...
by David | Aug 12, 2016 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
“Plan The Promise” is a phrase we coined which means, at its most fundamental level, to plan out in detail whatever you’re about to promise to your client(s). It means doing your due diligence and making smart commitments on behalf of your business. To be...
