Quality during Design Newsletter
Ready to excel in the world of engineering design? The Quality during Design Newsletter delivers insights, career advice, and resources to help you thrive. Get highlights from the Quality During design Podcast, summaries of our latest blog posts, curated articles, and exclusive content. Plus, get sneak peeks and excerpts from my upcoming book on cross-functional collaboration. All through the lens of design with data and collaboration. Subscribe below!
New podcasts and articles! Doing what we can where we are.
This Quality during Design Newsletter has been brought to you since 2021 from Deeney Enterprises and Dianna Deeney. Now a monthly digest sent on the first Friday of the month, gain insights, podcast highlights, and resources for engineering design professionals. Dear reader, This month's topics are about doing what we can where we are to affect tomorrow in a good way. How can I make transformations at work? I'm at a conference - what should I do? In this newsletter, we apply it to engineering...
Do you dread design reviews? + more
The Quality during Design newsletter has been sent to subscribers since 2021 from Dianna Deeney. Now a monthly digest, gain ideas of how to use Quality during Design for products others love, for less. Social Dynamics within Engineering Everyone knows that company politics can shape product design. As an engineer, what can you do to help the team make sound decisions that are linked to the project objectives?I saw Yakira Mirabito present her research at an ASME conference this summer. She...
Perspective on AI + Challenges with Facilitating
Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, AI, and VR in Design Engineering With all the buzz about these topics, we need some perspective. Tune in to this Quality during Design Podcast episode to explore AI, machine learning, and VR in product development. This overview will help you to understand the big picture of where these tools fit into your design process. This episode isn't just about embracing the latest tech trends; it's about knowing when simpler solutions will suffice and the...
New Podcasts, Workshop, and More!
We've shifted from weekly newsletters to monthly! This is the first issue of the monthly Quality during Design newsletter since its start in 2021. Look for future newsletters on the first Friday of each month. I value your feedback - let me know what you think. -Dianna Are you viewing your workplace through rose-colored glasses? Consider where you work and the team of people you work with. How is the work culture? Do you think it's fine? How is your communication with your teammates? You may...
Early reliability engineering input: a must-have
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. I speak a lot about communication and teamwork in early development. I also talk about what reliability engineers and quality engineers can do, and when they can do it in a product development process. Spoiler alert - it's usually earlier than you think! I've compilated some of the reliability engineering-based Quality during Design Podcast episodes in the recommendations, below....
New Podcast: Engage and Inform with New Presentation Techniques
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Can the way you present technical information drastically impact decision-making? Absolutely. In this week's podcast episode, we explore transformative methods that can elevate your technical presentations to a whole new level. Instead of relying on lifeless bullet points, the assertion evidence model encourages you to make clear recommendations at the top of each slide, coupled with...
Mastering priorities with the Kano Model
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. How do you balance customer wants with project constraints? If your customer-facing teammates are saying our customers want this, that and the other thing, which ones do we prioritize over others? Not all features are equal in the eyes of our customers. And not all features are value-added, either. In this week's episode/blog post, we delve into how to prioritize customer wants using...
Confluence of risks changes a record-breaking viaduct into a skywalk
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. To me, this scenic park is a lesson in risk.The massive Kinzua Viaduct was a testament to engineering. The bridge was built in the 1880s/1900s in northern Pennsylvania from steel forged in southeastern PA. "It was once the world's highest and longest rail viaduct."It was destroyed in 2003 by a tornado. The more complete story is that a massive maintenance project had begun by crews...
Effective Team Meetings: From Chaos to Cohesion
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Asking a project team to a meeting to discuss new ideas and make decisions? Working meetings can be hard. FMEA meetings can be harder! No matter the topic, I've learned that great facilitators in quality, business, project management, and new product development take similar approaches to creative teamwork. Add quality tools to that approach, and you've got a way to have productive...
Ideas with others: a Chief Engineer shares advice
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Part of our mission at Quality during Design is to get cross-functional teams together during concept development for design input. In that spirit, we're sharing with you some best practices to facilitate meetings and move toward actionable ideas. In this archive episode, we talk with Emily Haidemenos. She's a Chief Engineer and Six-Sigma Black Belt working in product design...
Ready to excel in the world of engineering design? The Quality during Design Newsletter delivers insights, career advice, and resources to help you thrive. Get highlights from the Quality During design Podcast, summaries of our latest blog posts, curated articles, and exclusive content. Plus, get sneak peeks and excerpts from my upcoming book on cross-functional collaboration. All through the lens of design with data and collaboration. Subscribe below!