by Richard | Aug 8, 2017 | Maintenance, Operation, System Analysis
We’ve been busy helping clients save money, and yes, it involves an acronym. Not another acronym! Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System … sounds complex, right? FRACAS can be as simple or as complex as you make it. But let’s start with a...
by David | Jul 3, 2017 | Integration, System Requirements
As you enjoy your 4th of July holiday celebrations, please pause to consider some thoughts regarding safety. Like most systems engineers, we think of safety as an emergent property. Safety isn’t something you hold in your hands or decree, it’s a result. It results—or...
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 | 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...