Background Technology means any and all products , services , processes , technologies , materials , software , data , or other innovations , and intellectual property created by You or a third party prior to or outside of the Project used as part of the Project.
Examples of Background Technology in a sentence Seller will disclose in the Engagement terms any Background Technology which Seller proposes to incorporate into Work Product or upon which use or distribution of the Work Product will depend. Background Technology means all Hardware and Software , data , know -how, ideas , methodologies , specifications and other technology , together with all enhancements , updates , improvements , fixes , extensions or other developments made to such technology from time to time, in which Developer owns such Intellectual Property Rights as are necessary for Developer to grant the rights and licenses set forth in Section Background Technology of a Party means all Intellectual Property that a is i owned or licensed by such Party and ii is in existence in electronic or written form on or prior to the effective date or b is developed , acquired , or licensed by such Party after the effective date and relates to the Business of NMHG or Flux ESS respectively.
Background Technology means Technology, if any, owned by Hitachi or its Subsidiaries that is a embodied in any Deliverable , and b not Developed Technology. After all, you don't need to be a software developer to know how to work in an agile fashion. Similarly, you can still set a product vision, identify a product strategy, and craft a product roadmap even though you don't know how to code yourself.
A non-technical PM will continue to drive the business requirements and will continue to focus on customer needs, regardless of technical difficulty. Furthermore, they can focus much more on the customer experience, rather than being bound to what technology has currently been implemented. On top of that, non-technical PMs generally perform better with cross-functional teams, including go-to-market teams such as product marketing. They're more likely to work better with the business side of the organization, since they'll be less worried about technical specifications and will be more focused on deliverables and objectives.
Even if you don't have a technical background, there are still many things you can do to "get technical" and build respect with your teams. In any case, becoming a technical product manager can be different from becoming a product manager.
Whenever a non-technical PM new to the industry asks what they should do about feature timeline estimation, I always mention that a lot of it comes down to pattern recognition over time. In the beginning of any project, you should always strive to communicate with any direct stakeholders involved to understand what they are thinking.
At the end of the project, you should aim to do a reflection around how accurate your estimates were. If they were wildly off, seek to understand what happened and incorporate that data into your estimations going forward. Understanding the logic behind technical issues does not mean you need to diagnose and implement the exact solutions yourself. Remember, as a PM, you're going to have to help triage a lot of potential issues. The last thing you want to do is become a useless middleman who just takes bugs and assigns them to an engineer without being able to diagnose what might be happening.
That is a guaranteed way to lose respect from your engineering teams. Don't let your dev team feel this way about you. See the chapter on recommendation reports for complete discussion. Technical background reports. This type is the hardest one to define but the one that most people write.
It focuses on a technical topic, provides background on that topic for a specific set of readers who have specific needs for it. This report does not supply instructions, nor does it supply recommendations in any systematic way, nor does it report new and original data. See the content, organization, and format guidelines for the technical background report in the following.
Technical guides and handbooks. Closely related to technical report but differing somewhat in purpose and audience are technical guides and handbooks. See the discusion of these types in the technical guides and handbooks in the following. Primary research reports. This type presents findings and interpretation from laboratory or field research. See the content, organization, and format guidelines for the primary research report in the following.
Business plans. This type is a proposal to start a new business. See content, organization, and format guidelines in the chapter on business plan. Technical specifications. This type presents descriptive and operational details on a new or updated product. See the content, organization, and format guidelines for technical specifications in the following. Technical Background Reports The technical background report is hard to define—it's not a lot of things, but it's hard to say what it is.
If you don't fully trust your intuition, use a checklist like the following: Definitions —Define the potentially unfamiliar terms associated with the topic. Write extended definitions if there are key terms or if they are particularly difficult to explain. Causes —Explain what causes are related to the topic. For example, with the renal disease topic, what causes the disease?
Effects —Explain what are the consequences, results, or effects associated with the topic. With the renal disease topic, what happens to people with the disease; what effects do the various treatments have? Types —Discuss the different types or categories associated with the topic. For example, are there different types of renal disease; are there different categories of treatment? Historical background —Discuss relevant history related to the topic.
Discuss people, events, and past theories related to the topic. Processes —Discuss mechanical, natural, human-controlled processes related to the topic. Explain step by step how the process occurs. For example, what are the phases of the renal disease cycle; what typically happens to a person with a specific form of the disease? Descriptions —Provide information on the physical details of things related to the topic. Provide information about size, shape, color, weight, and so on.
For the engineering-oriented report, this would mean size, power requirements, and other such details about the treatment technologies. Comparisons —Compare the topic, or some aspect of it, to something similar or something familiar. With the renal disease example, you could compare renal disease to some other disease; the treatment to some treatment; the functions of the kidney to something familiar an analogy ; or even the treatment to something familiar, for example, the filter system for a swimming pool.
Applications —Explore how some aspect of your topic can be used or applied. If it's some new technology, what are its applications? Advantages and disadvantages —Discuss the advantages or disadvantages of one or more aspects of your topic. In the renal disease topic, for example, what are the advantages of one treatment over another? Economic considerations —Discuss the costs of one or more aspects associated with your topic.
How much does treatment for renal disease cost? How much does the equipment and personnel cost? Social, political, legal, ethical implications —Explore the implications or impact of your topic or some aspect of it in relation to social, political, legal, or ethical concerns. The renal disease example doesn't lend itself much to this area, but imagine the possibilities with a topic like cryogenics—suspended animation of human beings. Often, new technologies have profound impact in these areas.
Problems, questions —What problems or questions are there associated with your report topic or some aspect of it? Solutions, answers —What solutions or answers can you offer on those problems or questions raised by your topic or some aspect of it?
Technical Guides and Handbooks There's a distinction to be made between reports, on the one hand, and guides and handbooks, on the other. For more detail, see handbooks. Primary Research Reports Primary research report is our name for that kind of report that presents original research data—no matter whether that data was generated in a laboratory or out in the "field.
See the examples of primary research reports. To enable readers to replicate your experiment or survey, you provide information like the following each normally in its own section : Introduction —The introduction to the primary research report needs to do what any good introduction to a report needs to do—get readers ready to read the report.
It may provide some background, but not more than a paragraph. Common elements, such as background, can be handled in the introduction. If they require a lot of discussion, however, they may need their own sections. For details, see the full discussion of introductions. Problem, background —One of the first things to do, either in the introduction, or in a separate section of its own, is to discuss the situation that has led to the research work.
For example, you may have noticed something that contradicts a commonly accepted theory; you may have noticed some phenomenon that has not been studied, and so on.
Explain this somewhere toward the beginning of a primary research report. Purpose, objectives, scope —Also toward the beginning of this type of report discuss what you intended to do in the research project—what were your objectives?
Also, explain the scope of your work—what were you not trying to do? Review of literature —After you've established the basis for the project, summarize the literature relevant to it—for example, books, journal articles, and encyclopedias. If you are doing a study on speech recognition software, what articles have already been written on that subject?
What do they have to say about the merits of this kind of software? All you do is summarize this literature briefly and enable readers to go have a look at it by providing the full bibliographic citation at the end of your report.
In the context of this type of report, the review of literature shows where the gaps or contradictions are in the existing literature.
Materials, equipment, facilities —Remember that one of your goals in writing this type of report is to enable the reader to replicate the experiment or survey you performed. Key to this is the discussion of the equipment and facilities you used in your research. Describe things in detail, providing brand names, model numbers, sizes, and other such specifications. Theory, methods, procedures —To enable readers to replicate your project, you must also explain the procedures or methods you used.
This discussion can be step by step: "first, I did this, then I did that These explain why you used the procedures that you used. Results, findings, data —Critical to any primary research report is the data that you collect. You present it in tables, charts, and graphs see the chapter on creating, formatting, and incorporating graphics into your reports.
These can go in the body of your report, or in appendixes if they are so big that they interrupt the flow of your discussion. Of course, some results or findings may not be presentable as tables, charts, or graphs. In these cases, you just discuss it in paragraphs. In any case, you do not add interpretation to this presentation of data. You merely present the data, without trying to explain it.
Discussion, conclusions, recommendations —In primary research reports, you interpret or discuss your findings in a section separate from the one where you present the data.
Now's the time to explain your data, to interpret it. This section, or area of the report, is also the place to make recommendations or state ideas for further research. Bibliography —The ideal of the primary research report is build upon or add to the knowledge in a particular area. It's the vehicle by which our knowledge advances for a specific topic. Your primary research report rests on top of all the work done by other researchers on the same topic.
For that reason, you must list the sources of information you used or consulted in your project. This list occurs at the end of the report. For guidelines and format, see the chapter on documentation.
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