Last week, I wrote several blog entries that discussed old and obsolete ideas contained in the popular and successful Reuse Methodology Manual (the RMM), which ushered in the SOC era back in 1997. I ...

Welcome back to our fourth blog post in this series focused on group dynamics and system design. Central to our blog series is a simple idea: We need to understand group dynamics if our goal is to ...

Here we are, back in New Orleans for another Design Automation Conference. Most DAC visitors arrive in “tool-browsing” mode, casually looking for a faster simulator, more accurate timing extractor or ...

However, they generally don’t understand systems thinking and design methodologies. The group facilitator will often serve as a teacher/educator in explaining to sponsors/brokers/leaders what can be ...