Category: Product Development
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Electronics Design: Component Selection
Component Selection We have worked our way through Requirements Capture and Technology Selection. After doing some initial design work and deciding on how the circuit will work, you have to find components that you can buy on a reasonable lead time and at a reasonable price. This depends a lot on the expected production volume…
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Collaboration: New opportunities depend on it
Collaboration So what is Collaboration? The first thing it is not is convincing someone to work for you for nothing with the vague promise you will make it worth their while in the long run. Let’s look at a few formal definitions: Collaboration is working with each other to do a task and…
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Electronics Design: Requirements Capture
Requirements Capture Product Development is the core process your use when you have a great idea for a new product, or an improved version of an existing one. The very first step is to define what it is meant to do. This first step is known as Requirements Capture. And requirements break down into…
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Software Estimation
Estimating Software Development This is actually a huge topic so I am just going to touch on some high level points. What prompted me to start writing on this topic is a recent conversation with a client and a cartoon I came across at Gizmodo about what happens when your Boss Estimates Software. The…
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Product Development Process
Product Development As a technical professional, I tend to think of the Product Development Process, also known as New Product Development, as the creation of the product technology through to a working unit that can then be manufactured. And of course managing risk to Improve Product Development Outcomes. The only thing wrong with this picture…
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Technology Voucher Program
Victorian Technology Voucher Program The Victorian Technology Voucher Program came out of the STIUP (Small Technologies Industry Uptake Program) and is one of the most progressive and effective technology development assistance programs in Australia. The main different to the earlier program is that it also allows ICT (Information Communications Technology) platforms to be developed.…
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Visualisation: Part 2
The Client Perspective What you see depends on which direction you are looking from. If you count from the top, there are 10 bars. But there are only 7 bars when you count from the bottom. In this case it is an optical illusion based on how the drawing is constructed. However in real…