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I was listening to the “Algorithmic feature prioritization, Featured Product Maker, Gabriel Steinhardt” webinar and making some notes when it occurred to me that I needed to recover presuppositions hidden in the facts and logic of the report to produce genuinely valuable feedback to the author and his audience. And…

I was discussing the last version of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook. There is still a strong emphasis on the stage-gates model, milestones, and project management practices. And that ignited heavy critics of my opponents, who have a strong software development background and DevSecOps. “We don’t need these obsolete concepts…

Change the system level to the higher one or, the lower one. Let’s bog down into the details. I am passing exams now for a Spanish driving license. And at one moment, I realized that the current PDCA cycle no longer works. I look at the data (my error sheet)…

Abstract Using well-defined terms from systems engineering can lead to clear communication within product development teams. We put a label of “product” onto the product system of interest (SoI), service SoI, and product-as-practices-of-making-money. These three types of products produce hierarchy, a systems’ holarchy. We have capabilities, make services on top of…

some occasional thoughts about exams and trials I have been passing a lot of tests and certifications lately. That is what comes with moving to another country. Yesterday I was taking a driving exam in Spain (my country license is not valid here, and you need to obtain a new…

Do you remember The Sack, a 1950 science fiction story by William Morrison? I recently re-read it, and the story describes one possibility we can fail as communities of researchers. We can lose a lot of side-kick opportunities to discover something along the way to the main goal if we…

What has surprised me for a long time in Office 365 is that with all their top-of-the-shelf product management, their product still misses the critical feature of the document panes. For example, I tried to write the last article in Word instead of the usual flow in Obsidian or Logseq…

Not very long ago, I ran into a story where the author explained “why being a mom is a CEO job,” with many supportive comments and reactions under the publication. While this could be an attractive narrative, it steers us from thinking straight. I used such “family metaphors” myself, and…