Finally, a personality quiz for product DEVELOPERS by a product engineer!

Not a product developer? It's okay! You can still learn so much about yourself. Read on! Look around. Plastics, plastics everywhere! Approximately 300 million tons of plastic were produced...

How to become a threaded, tempoed and tractable manager.

Demystify the process of delegation: A guide to creating a concrete start for new managers coming from technical backgrounds. Engineers “get freaked out” when new responsibilities grow beyond their reach or...

Innovating Innovation

The “Internet of Things” is changing everything - even innovation. In Product Development, the demand to make almost every conceivable object “smart” or “connected” requires developers to approach design in revolutionary ways. The “Internet of Things” is breaking...

In part one of this post we built the case that models are general tools used to help us make decisions, noted that plans are only good or bad in comparison to the work you want to manage, and observed...

What is a Model?

In the most general definition, a model is anything that is used to represent something else. A fashion model lets you imagine how clothes might look on you. A plastic model may be a child’s first...