If you see one movie this year, watch Tom Shadyak’s documentary, “I AM”. Tom set out to discover what is wrong with the world and ended up discovering what is right with the world. Click the link to...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has shifted into an essential requirement for product development companies over the past few years. It is no longer about whether or not a company will have PLM...

Oracle is heavily involved with America's Cup racing and this week the Oracle sponsored US team is battling sailing superpower New Zealand (the Kiwis) for the cup. One interesting phenomenon I have...

Extensibility – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Those whom have worked with Agile PLM for any significant period of time are aware that there are many things it does well and others which it...

A couple of weeks ago Jos Voskuil wrote what I considered to be a fairly strong article titled "How com PLM is Boring?". In the article Jos makes the point that certain aspects of product lifecycle...

Last week we had some high quality responses to a couple of our blog articles. The first article, "The Top 5 Simple Factors to Consider in a PDM/PLM Service Provider" resulted in a very thorough...

Planning for the unknown is difficult in any situation. Planning for unknown factors in PLM projects can be hard to justify in project review sessions and removing activities associated with...

In the movie LA Confidential there are many surprising plot twists. I was very surprised to learn these as the movie unfolded. I never expected that the chief was in on it nor did Kevin Spacey who...

Although I certainly meant to write about this habit sooner the timing is pretty appropriate for the New Year. The New Year is often a time for reflection and evaluation in our personal lives and...

I spent a few days in Atlanta recently at the PLM Innovation Conference. There have been several good articles written about the conference itself including a couple by the prolific Oleg Shilovistsky...