Why efficiency gains hardly accelerate development
Local efficiency gains increase the global delay. To accelerate development, understanding is the first step.
Work more efficiently with the Semiant glossary browser extension
Glossaries are a tricky thing: on the one hand, everyone in the team is grateful when there is a well-maintained glossary. On the other hand, nobody wants to take on the work of creating it. The coordination process can also lead to disgruntlement and consume vast amounts of time. And even if there is a good glossary: There is a great danger that many...
5 things for successful systems engineering workshops
With these 5 things, we can avoid wasting participants' valuable time in Systems Engineering workshops.
Finding the needle in the (data) haystack: 12 useful metrics
There is a lot of talk about data analysis, data mining, business intelligence and similar approaches to systematic improvement. That sounds plausible at first: you can't manage what you can't measure. But in practice, it's not that simple. And in practice, I come across an astonishingly high number of organizations that do not...
Why systems engineering must create added value (What actually is added value?)
There are many thankless jobs in companies, such as IT, accounting or data protection. These often go by the name of "cost center" and are thankless because they don't seem to make a direct contribution to the success of the business. Unfortunately, this is also how systems engineering is perceived in some companies. The aim of this article is to show that SE can make a significant...
Working on the wrong thing with efficiency
What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness? Someone who is efficient has a high degree of effectiveness, i.e. achieves a lot per unit of time. Someone who is effective comes closer to the result. But what does this have to do with systems engineering? Quite simply: the complexity of systems engineering means that you can quickly become efficient without being effective....
