056: Maintaining Agility and Continually Moving Forward

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization. Tune in for discussions among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitization principles forward for the future of product development and life cycles.</span><strong> </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s episode, Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome Tom Gill, a Senior Consultant at CIMData who advises manufacturing companies and engineering software companies on how to better design their products.  Tom offers his expert insight into the world of agile software development and details the importance of managing BOMs and understanding process innovations.  He also offers encouraging career advice for anyone that is wondering how to take control and move their career forward.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>All about agile software</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This software style includes incremental development that offers continual improvement </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Agile Manifesto defines the goal of developing working increments of software on a fixed cadence that provide value</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The goal of agile software is to adapt to changes while continually providing value</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Managing multi BOMs</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why does X BOM matter? It starts with the need to keep information connected across the lifecycle</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The process starts with requirements and ends with in-service operations </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;