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MOE's and MOP's for a Capability

Herding Cats

If we are to make logical decisions and choices in product and systems development, we need to have criteria to measure the value or relative importance of aspects of alternative proposals. This is an essential pre‒requisite for part of trade studies. Both the client (customer, user) and the engineer have such measures, and these are related. Measures of Effectiveness (MoE) represent the customer view, usually annotated and of qualitative nature.

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Simplicity and complexity

Musings on Project Management

Simplicity requires a lot of complexity Jack Dorsey Founder, Square, Inc Can you repeat that? Making it simple for the user/customer/beneficiary often requires a lot of 'backstage' complexity. Ask any system engineer. . Project managers beware! Often, the sponsor's vision is simplicity itself. And, the sponsor makes resource commitments on their idea of value.