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Slow Down to Speed Up: Jake McKee’s Guide to AIX (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Yakira Mirabito about social dynamics within engineering and how it affects decision-making.

Blank Flipcharts Don’t Make Magic, But Templates Do

In product development, the “fuzzy front end” of concept development often represents both tremendous opportunity and significant challenge. During this critical phase, teams are tasked with defining problems, understanding customers, and generating solutions-all before any engineering begins. How we navigate this phase dramatically impacts bottom-line results, market share, customer satisfaction, and whether projects even launch…

Why Your Cross-Functional Team Isn’t Communicating Effectively (And How to Fix It)

Have you ever watched a promising product idea slowly die in the fuzzy space between “great concept” and “actual development”? You’re not alone. The journey from product idea to market-ready solution contains a critical yet often overlooked phase: concept development. This is where cross-functional teams must align their diverse perspectives to create a solid foundation…

Social Dynamics within Engineering with Yakira Mirabito (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Yakira Mirabito about social dynamics within engineering and how it affects decision-making.

Improving Communication and the Workplace with Meagan Pollock (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Meagan Pollock about improving communication and the workplace.

Myths of Product Development – Part 2

There are myths of product development that Quality can help with. In the previous Part 1, we talked about how we cannot treat the product development process like a manufacturing process. But, there are ways we can apply Quality to the product development process without doing this. Quality can help with early concept development, to…

Myths of Product Development – Part 1

There are myths of product development that Quality can help with. How do we integrate quality with product development? Using quality tools and techniques early in the design phase can lead to more successful outcomes. But we cannot do it by treating the product development process like a manufacturing process. Listen to this Part 1…