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  • “Simple” can be Hard

    “Simple” can be Hard

    During 2012 my organization was challenged to “simplify”. One example I looked to was tablet apps which tend to be simple and limited…yet effective. Yeah…people involved in technology can over think and make our processes (not to mention our products) more complex than they need to be. With an engineering background and working in a company that has…

  • Perfect is the enemy of “Good Enough”

  • Horses for Courses

    Horses for Courses

    1.   “Horses for Courses” One could write a letter with Microsoft Excel or calculate a table with Microsoft Word, but both are designed for particular purposes. The same is true for systems that were designed for engineering information management from the ground up, verses systems that are designed for simple office document management. The best…

  • Milestone vs. In-Progress

    Milestone vs. In-Progress

    Since there’s a mountain of evidence (Search this blog for “Do you want to manage engineering”) that an engineering specific repository is necessary to support the complexity of engineering content management, engineering content review and engineering content publishing, some EDMS vendors will admit that they cannot provide all of the capability of ProjectWise, but that their…

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