Often people will ask me: “Who is your major competitor?” My usual response is “Microsoft Office.” I don’t say this because MS Office is a bad tool … it is not. It is a very good tool for publishing information. I use it often and have become quite the expert in using it to write […]

We often say that the job of a systems engineer is to “optimize the system’s cost, schedule, and performance, while mitigating risks in each of these areas.” Note that this is essentially the same thing that the program manager does for the program, hence the close relationship between the two disciplines. Everyone is talking about […]