As long as I’ve been an engineer, people have spoken about requirements management. I agree that requirements management is important to keep a program in compliance with stakeholder objectives. By stakeholder, I mean our own internal organization, the customer, the manufacturing team, the test team, the installation team, the lifecycle …

Last week on our company blog, Zane Scott provided advice on how to be a better systems engineering leader. He outlined six traits that make good leaders. His article is great for reflection on our leadership personality and reminds us of things we need to incorporate in our interactions and …

Recent examples drawn from current events underscore the necessity for an appropriate leadership temperament. This is no less true for systems engineers than it is in the political world. Particularly in the technical world, this aspect of leadership is often overlooked when discussing leadership or providing leadership training. This is …

I always enjoy catching up with my nephew, a biomedical engineering student at a university not too far from our home. Our family Thanksgiving dinner this year gave me an opportunity to find out how things are going for this young engineer. One of his assignments was of particular interest …