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19 April 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 7 – How to Deal with Blaming and Shaming

7. How to deal with naming and shaming When issues are revealed in concurrent design sessions, it is inevitable that some blaming and sha...

23 March 2023

5 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 6 – Challenging the Experts

6. Challenging the experts When you are the facilitator in concurrent design sessions you may know a lot less about the topic than the pa...

15 February 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 5 – Focus Without Losing a Holistic View

5. Focus without losing a holistic view Quality is created by focus; the more we zoom in, the more issues we find and can resolve. Howeve...

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19 January 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 4 – Quality In is Quality Out

4. Quality in is quality out When we support our stakeholders to present the information they bring to the table in a structured and comp...

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15 December 2022

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 3 – Validation

3. Validation and doing the maths Validation is a standard practice in system engineering, but it is still mostly a planned and separate ...

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17 November 2022

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 2 – Use 60 Eyes to Check and Double Check

2. Use 60 eyes to check and double check Peer reviewing is one of the most effective ways to validate the quality and rigour of results. ...

19 October 2022

3 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 1 – The Role of the Facilitator

1. The role of the facilitator Concurrent design requires a specific style of process facilitation. Traditionally, facilitation methods p...

22 September 2022

9 minutes

10 Success Factors for Concurrent Design

Overview: What is concurrent design? Concurrent design is based on a series of sessions where the client, experts from various domains an...

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18 August 2022

7 minutes

James Webb Space Telescope – Sharing Data from the Ultimate Space-Time Machine

In this post, Mark McCaughrean from ESA discusses how data from the James Webb Space Telescope will be disseminated to scientists.

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17 August 2022

3 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 10 – The Team as Super-Brain

10: The team as super-brain One vital contributory factor to the success of concurrent design is treating the team as a ‘super-brain’. To...

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20 July 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 9 – Taking an Iterative Approach

9: Taking an iterative approach You may have read that concurrent design takes an ‘iterative approach’. But what does that mean? We work ...

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15 June 2022

3 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 8 – Efficiency

8: Efficiency One of the objectives of concurrent design is to speed up the process of the early phases of multidisciplinary projects, no...

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19 May 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 7 – Motivation and Flow

7: Motivation and Flow Working efficiently requires effort and hard work from everyone involved. This is particularly true of concurrent ...

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20 April 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 6 – Three Steps to Achieve Commitment

6: Three Steps to Achieve Commitment In concurrent design, solutions to a problem should always be based on facts. But it is also importa...

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30 March 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 5 – Gain a holistic view through a cyclical approach

5. Take an Iterative Approach Concurrent design supports (technically) complex problems. To approach these problems logically and product...

17 February 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 4 – Assign Ownership

4. Assign Ownership In this post, we explain why the success of concurrent design depends on all stakeholders being mandated experts and ...

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31 January 2022

5 minutes

Space Safety and Security – Why Both Matter

What aspects are considered important for space safety? ESA’s original Space Situational Awareness programme concentrated on space debris...

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27 January 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 3 – Be Driven by Data

3. Be Driven by Data Concurrent design focuses on a rational, fact-based type of decision-making. However, exact values are not always av...

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Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 7 – How to Deal with Blaming and Shaming

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 6 – Challenging the Experts

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 5 – Focus Without Losing a Holistic View

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 4 – Quality In is Quality Out

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 3 – Validation

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 2 – Use 60 Eyes to Check and Double Check

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 1 – The Role of the Facilitator

10 Success Factors for Concurrent Design

James Webb Space Telescope – Sharing Data from the Ultimate Space-Time Machine

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 10 – The Team as Super-Brain

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 9 – Taking an Iterative Approach

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 8 – Efficiency

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 7 – Motivation and Flow

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 6 – Three Steps to Achieve Commitment

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 5 – Gain a holistic view through a cyclical approach

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 4 – Assign Ownership

Space Safety and Security – Why Both Matter

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 3 – Be Driven by Data