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Dianna Deeney — Active Contributor

Host of Quality during Design podcast and co-host of the Speaking of Reliability podcast.


This author's archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.

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QDD 103 What to do for Effective and Efficient Working Meetings

QDD 103 What to do for Effective and Efficient Working Meetings

What to do for Effective and Efficient Working Meetings

We all like effective and efficient working meetings.

What do we do to plan them, or how do we improve our recurring ones?

Are we prepared to do things differently? If so, we can collect information so we know what we want to improve and by how much.

We talk about best practices of meeting evaluations for those that we plan and facilitate and those recurring team meetings.

 

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SOR 849 Two Sides of a Coin: Quality and Reliability

SOR 849 Two Sides of a Coin: Quality and Reliability

Two Sides of a Coin: Quality and Reliability

Abstract

Dianna and Chris discussing their different viewpoints of quality and reliability: how they are really two sides of a coin that are supported by the culture of an organization and by individual contributors.
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QDD 102 Get Design Inputs with Flowcharts

QDD 102 Get Design Inputs with Flowcharts

Get Design Inputs with Flowcharts

How do we even begin a design for the user without getting into engineering prototypes?

Don’t we need to do lots of iterations of prototypes and physical mockups to get design inputs from other people?

While these things can be useful, they’re not always practical or necessary, No, we don’t need to do lots of iterations of different mockups to get design inputs.

In fact, we want to explore the use space with our team before we even start engineering stuff, including the mockups. So how do we get started talking with our team about a design concept without having something to show them?

This episode describes just one way we could do it: how to get design inputs with flowcharts.

If you want more on this topic, register for the workshop! Registration Link

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QDD 101 Quality Tools are Legos of Development (and Their 7 Uses)

QDD 101 Quality Tools are Legos of Development (and Their 7 Uses)

Quality Tools are Legos of Development (and Their 7 Uses)

How are quality tools Legos of development?

We talk about two philosophies of brick building and our use of the family of quality tools.

We also talk about seven uses of quality tools in product development.

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SOR 844 Routine Reliability

SOR 844 Routine Reliability

Routine Reliability

Abstract

Dianna and Fred discussing routine reliability from a listener’s question: when creating a reliability plan for a project, how do we separate the routine and unique parts of reliability activities?
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QDD 100 Lessons Learned from Coffee Pod Stories

QDD 100 Lessons Learned from Coffee Pod Stories

Lessons Learned from Coffee Pod Stories

What types of things might happen when we don’t fully understand, explore, or address:

  • the breadth of the whole concept space,
  • a product’s many users, and
  • the voice of the customer?

We explore a public consumer complaint and upset over coffee pods. And we imagine what may have happened (or didn’t happen) during design development that could have helped avoid the issues from the start.

What are some of the lessons learned from coffee pod stories?

We explore this ongoing, public story to gain some insight that we can apply to our own designs.

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SOR 843 Hidden Reliability Wins

SOR 843 Hidden Reliability Wins

Hidden Reliability Wins

Abstract

Dianna and Fred discussing hidden reliability wins: when reliability efforts go right, things don’t go wrong. So then, how can reliability engineers quantify their work?
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QDD 099 Crucial Conversations in Engineering, with Shere Tuckey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

QDD 099 Crucial Conversations in Engineering, with Shere Tuckey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Crucial Conversations in Engineering, with Shere Tuckey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Shere Tuckey about Crucial Conversations® in an engineering environment: how to prepare for and have difficult conversations with peers, managers, and everyone else. Shere gave a conference presentation about Crucial Conversations® titled, “How to be Persuasive Rather than Abrasive.”

This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts”. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team for new product development. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products, the values they bring to new product development, and how they’re involved and work with product design engineering teammates.

About Shere

Shere is a Branch Chief in the Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. She is responsible for advocating, planning, budgeting, organizing, and directing the execution of a high-priority technology development portfolio as well as direct supervision and management of all personnel within the branch. Over the last twenty-nine years, she has managed twelve different teams across many engineering disciplines from shock physics experimentation to weapon effects modeling and simulation.

Shere has taken a special interest in leadership, mentoring, and helping teams communicate effectively. After being asked to serve as the Dean of Leadership for her organization’s workforce development program, she became certified to teach the Crucial Conversations® course as a foundational element of leadership development.

She has taught five highly rated classes to high level managers, junior employees, and everyone in between. The positive feedback received from these classes and the course’s universal applicability, has motivated Shere to share this knowledge in as many forums as possible.

Shere and Dianna talk about:

  • what makes a dialogue a Crucial Conversation®
  • how she discovered the Crucial Conversation® framework
  • why she trains others at her work in the Crucial Conversations® model and champions its use

Shere also shares stories of success.

Listen to take your communications skills to another level, at work and everywhere else.

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QDD 098 Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development

QDD 098 Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development

Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development

This is the wrap-up, final episode of our series – the 7th episode in our series about generating ideas with a team toward action.

Since the start of 2023, we focused on a few quality tools and methods to both generate ideas and then choose which idea to pursue.

We’ve talked about:

  • Changing our scope to a closed world, to failures or questions, or design heuristics
  • Brainstorming within a problem-solving framework
  • Grouping many ideas and then further refining them
  • Prioritizing many ideas by comparing them to 2 criteria or by using team voting
  • Choosing an idea by using paired comparisons or a structured decision-making solution like DMRCS
  • Giving individuals a process to create a full design concept

We also interviewed an expert in brainstorming and learned the importance of planning for teamwork, including choosing our team.

What have we learned through the last few weeks? Let’s highlight take-aways and next steps.

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QDD 097 Brainstorming within Design Sprints

QDD 097 Brainstorming within Design Sprints

Brainstorming within Design Sprints

We’re in our 6th episode into our series about generating ideas with our team toward action. The first two episodes were all about idea generation. The 3rd through 5th episodes was about using Quality Tools to help us group, explore, prioritize, and decide on an idea.

There’s one more method to consider in this series: a design sprint.

A design sprint utilizes all of these things we’ve been talking about. We talk about the book Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days and how these ideas fit together.

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QDD 096 After the ‘Storm: Compare and Prioritize Ideas

QDD 096 After the ‘Storm: Compare and Prioritize Ideas

After the ‘Storm: Compare and Prioritize Ideas

We’re in our 5th episode of our series about generating ideas with our team toward action. The first two episodes were all about idea generation. The 3rd was about grouping and exploring ideas. The 4th was about screening ideas. Now, we’ll look at ways to compare ideas.

We’re still considering that we’re just after brainstorming, at the point where we have many ideas and no next steps.

Let’s compare ideas with our team so we can move toward action. We explore these Quality Tools and how to use them after a brainstorming or other idea-generating team activity:

  • paired comparison
  • prioritization matrix
  • DMRCS

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QDD 095 After the ‘Storm: Pareto Voting and Screening Methods

QDD 095 After the ‘Storm: Pareto Voting and Screening Methods

After the ‘Storm: Pareto Voting and Screening Methods

We’re in our 4th episode into our series about generating ideas with our team toward action. The first two episodes were all about idea generation. The 3rd was about grouping and exploring ideas.

We’re still considering that we’re just after brainstorming, at the point where we have many ideas and no next steps.

Let’s instead screen our ideas so we can move toward action. We explore these Quality Tools and how to use them after a brainstorming or other idea-generating team activity:

  • 2×2 chart
  • Systematic list reduction
  • Multivoting or Pareto Voting

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QDD 094 After the ‘Storm: Group and Explore Ideas

QDD 094 After the ‘Storm: Group and Explore Ideas

After the ‘Storm: Group and Explore Ideas

 

We’re in our 3rd episode into our series about generating ideas with our team toward action. The previous two episodes were all about idea generation.

We’re now at the point where we have many ideas and no next steps.

Let’s group and explore our ideas so we can move toward action. We explore these Quality Tools and how to use them after a brainstorming or other idea-generating team activity:

  • Affinity Diagram team sorting method
  • Fishbone
  • Tree Diagrams

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SOR 830 Dealing With Product Characteristics

SOR 830 Dealing With Product Characteristics

Dealing With Product Characteristics

Abstract

Dianna and Fred discussing engineering projects and dealing with product characteristics and requirements.
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QDD 093 Product Design with Brainstorming, with Emily Haidemenos (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)

QDD 093 Product Design with Brainstorming, with Emily Haidemenos (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)

Product Design with Brainstorming, with Emily Haidemenos (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Emily Haidemenos about product design with brainstorming. She hosted a workshop at a conference about this topic, titled “Brainstorming: The Solution to Structured Problem Solving”.

This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts”. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team for new product development. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products, the values they bring to new product development, and how they’re involved and work with product design engineering teammates.

About Emily

Emily has a master’s degree in Design and Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  After initially working as a Design Engineer, Emily left and moved into a New Product Development Quality Engineering position.  In this role, she worked with multiple cross-functional engineering teams to ensure the effectiveness of quality systems while earning her Six Sigma Black Belt certification.  Now as a Chief Engineer for next generation high voltage automotive products, she aims to grow and develop a team of technically competent individuals who realize their maximum potential.

Emily and Dianna talk about:

  • some of the common pitfalls of brainstorming from a perspective of taking defensive action against those pitfalls.
  • the basic steps of brainstorming, but then circle back to the planning phase. There’s a lot we can do in the planning phases, and Emily shares specifics about planning for brainstorming so we can get the most out of it. Including setting up those defenses.
  • best practices for leading a brainstorming session. Emily shares the successes she’s had with it, and what her team thinks about it.

Listen to be inspired to either take on brainstorming or change-up how you’re doing your sessions!

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