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Fully Loaded

In order to do anything complex, we need to plan. More specifically, we need to spend time planning. This may sound obvious, but many of...

Don't Write That Code

Not too long ago, the mantra for software projects was "hire engineers and start coding." I remember it well. If you could spell...

Design is Strategy

At this point, the convergence of Design and Strategy is complete. I would go so far as to say that Design is Strategy and vice versa....

Modern Software Development

Agile software methods (and Scrum in particular) have been the go-to development process for most software shops, at least in silicon...

Market First Thinking

Innovators develop new ideas all the time. Some of them fly, and some of them don't. Most of the time, these new ideas are born out of a...

Why Prototype?

In the early phases of product design, smart product teams will create prototypes to better understand what they're doing. This can be...

Stage Gates Unlocked

The notion of a stage-gate methodology has been with us for some time. The core idea is to break any complex project into stages, and to...

Research Portfolios

When we look at research projects in any field, and in the medical field specifically, it's important to take a portfolio perspective so...

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