New technology brings new opportunities. It also brings hype,”fear of missing out,” and disappointment. AI is proving to be no exception to this rule. So the questions that many of us are currently considering include “What is AI really?”, “Can it help us succeed?” and “Are we missing out?” Download this guide from author and […]
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Shift From Growth-at-All-Costs to Long-Term Profitability Today’s tech CFOs face tighter funding, lower valuations and higher pressure to stretch every dollar. In a volatile market, here’s how you can make the critical pivot from a growth-first mindset to a more long-term outlook. What’s at Stake?Investors prioritize companies with strong financial fundamentals. If you fail to […]
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As businesses of all sizes increasingly adopt hybrid or mobile work, teams that collaborate are often distributed around town—or around the globe. Although many organizations are relying on mobile devices to improve productivity and collaboration, project management teams often must juggle a broad range of tools, apps, and online services to perform all their work […]
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When it comes to managing requirements, complexity is the new normal. Requirements documents now routinely exceed 100 pages and can change multiple times. But the problem isn’t the requirements document itself — the problem is continuing to rely on a document to manage your requirements in the first place. We have compiled the five biggest […]
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Embedded systems pose particular design and development challenges. An overlooked software or system requirement could lead to painful hardware redesign late in the process. Beyond functionality, your team must specify, design and build the product to protect against serious safety, security, reliability and performance risks. Yet the imperative to deliver the right product quickly still […]
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Compliance standards, especially those that involve relatively new functional safety elements, will likely add additional requirements to the development process. But ISO 26262, in particular, will add more than new requirements to the product life cycle for automotive hardware-software systems. This Functional Safety standard will act as a framework impacting integrated requirements traceability, risk management, […]
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In today’s increasingly complex product delivery workflows, smoothly handing-off work from one lifecycle stage to the next requires clear cross-team communication. But too often, siloed teams and inefficient communication bottlenecks and stalls your productivity. You need complete visibility into the requirements document, each phase of the product roadmap and the related activities of all delivery […]
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As a design assurance guideline for airborne electronic hardware, DO-254 is considered by many to be a simple duplicate of DO-178, its avionics software sibling. While similarities abound, so do their many differences. And truly, DO-254 is the benefactor, or bane, of avionics projects the world over. But is DO-254 unduly expensive? Does it add […]
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As projects grow in complexity, so does the challenge of ensuring that everyone at each touch-point understands the scope and stay in sync with the ever-evolving requirements. How can you manage projects more effectively when scope changes? This paper discusses how the combination of collaboration, traceability, test coverage and change management can all help teams […]
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Practice of any kind usually involves a modicum of coaching, self-help and repetition. In avionics development, however, there is little time or space for practice, because everything counts. And the results have little margin for error when schedules, budgets and particularly safety are all on the line. How then can “practice” be reconciled with “avionics […]
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For medical device manufacturers, new realities present favorable circumstances and worrisome challenges. For example, medical devices are now more integrated into inpatient, outpatient and home care. And technological advances continue to evolve medical device design and manufacturing. But as modern health reform increases patient connectivity, it also increases media scrutiny, leaving manufacturers with precious little […]
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