As design outsourcing matures, a potential problem is emerging
This article address a key issue faced today at many multi-national system design firms. Having design teams situated on two opposite sides of the Pacific is both time consuming and can lead to confusion.
These are challenges that can easily be overcome by putting stringent processes in place, and have a clearly define set of roles and responsibilities. It’s only a matter of time that the Electronic Design Industry catches up, and adopts outsourcing best practices from their counterparts in the Software Design space.
The problem is simple. Architects divorced from actual implementation tend to drift into Never-Never Land. Without drawing unflattering parallels to Frank Lloyd Wright here, these architects tend to create idealisms that are unworkable in the application, or are simply unimplementable. Conversely, implementation management separated from architects tends to lack vital information about the intent of the design—stuff that is very hard to capture in a specification but that would strongly influence how the design was implemented. Continue reading…
