ConOps vs OpsCon – What’s the Difference? We hear this question over and over again, as this topic comes up a lot in our classes where, as part of scope […]
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First, break all the requirements
What? In 1999, Buckingham and Coffman authored First, Break All the Rules. They used Gallop data from manager interviews to identify how good managers drive employee satisfaction. Internally at ArgonDigital, we […]
Don’t Throw Away Your Shot: Be A Hamilton Product Manager
Five years ago, nobody really remembered Alexander Hamilton, but with the helping hand of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical he has burst back into the spotlight over two hundred years later. While […]
Requirements – What’s the Big Deal????
Note: this is an update to this blog originally published in 2012. Preparing for the future A constant throughout the evolution of systems engineering is an ever-increasing complexity of systems […]
Implementing a Requirements Development and Management Processes
Note this is an update to this blog originally posted in 2013. A major challenge to implementing the chosen RDM capability for your organization and project is convincing management and […]
Agile and Requirement–Driven Product Development
My previous blog described “Requirement-Driven Product Development” (RDPD). One of my readers asked a very important and well-formed question: “Lou, nice article. Are there any specializations to the approach for […]
Homer Simpson, Difficult Stakeholder
I am a firm believer that any situation in life or in business can be traced to an episode of either The Simpsons or Seinfeld. In The Simpsons season 2 […]
Requirement–Driven Product Development
I think it is safe to say that everyone that leads or is part of a product development project starts out with the intention of delivering a winning product. We […]
Educating the Business on what a Business Analyst Does
I’ve got a new project where my main subject matter expert, John, is relatively new in his career. This is the first “IT” project that John has been involved in, and this […]
Managing Stakeholders Expectations- What to do when your SMEs think your project will solve all their problems….
There are lots of times that stakeholders have unrealistic expectations and that you, as the product manager/business analyst will have to manage them so that the scope of the project […]
Should the “testors” be involved in requirements development?
On more than one occasion, I have been asked about early involvement of the test team. To paraphrase a most recent question, I was asked:: “I have studied different articles […]
Medical Device Development and ArgonDigital
We are frequently asked whether or not the training we offer is specifically geared to the medical device industry or if our training is generic. The short answer – our […]