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Technology Development Process

A Good Process is Needed to Make Engineering Successful

By michaeljmorris on Tue, 03/29/11 - 8:04pm.

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A little over 3 years ago, I wrote two blogs on network design process:

In those blogs I referenced Cisco's PDIOO (Plan, Design, Implementation, Operations, and Optimize) framework for design.

This framework and the blogs were helpful, but not something we could use ourselves. It was advice, not a process. So, after those blogs got me motivated, I spent some time with my team, using the PDIOO framework as a model, and developed our own Technology Development Process.

This 7 step process is used to engineer a new technology.

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About From the Field

Michael Morris is a communications engineering manager at a $3-billion high-tech company. His background is in enterprise WANs working with telcos and developing large-scale routing designs. He has worked on networks at government and corporate organizations, including networks at two Fortune 10 companies. In his current role, he leads a team of 10 engineers responsible for large-scale IT networking projects and architectural standards for data networks, storage area networks, IP telephony, contact centers, and security. Michael is CCIE #11733 and recently became one of the first three Cisco Certified Design Experts (CCDE) ever (#20080002). He has 11 years experience in networking and communications, including four years as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army. He has a bachelor's degree in MIS from the University at Buffalo and is working on his MBA from NC State University. In 2008, he was awarded the Network Professional Association (NPA) Professional Excellence and Innovation Award for his work on network architecture, templates and enterprise MPLS design.

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