Agile Systems Engineering, with Pari Singh (Flow Engineering)

Modern engineering teams need to look radically different, at least according to Pari Singh, Founder and CEO of Flow Engineering. Flow, a London and LA-based startup, aims to overhaul traditional engineering approaches with its collaboration platform, specifically tailored for 'new age' hardware teams. Flow provides a collaborative platform for hardware and software teams, streamlining requirements management, integrating with key design tools, and offering advanced visualization for efficient design and compliance. Mo and Pari’s conversations covers a wide array of topics, including: – The Flow origin story – The stagnation of hardware innovation – How systems engineering has evolved – The ideal modern engineering team – Building in London And much more… This episode is brought to you by SpiderOak, a US-based software company that builds space cybersecurity products and solutions for civilian, military, and commercial space operations. Learn more at https://spideroak.com/ • Chapters • 00:00 - Intro & SpiderOak ad 01:11 - Flow: from rockets to software 06:48 - Was the intention always software? 08:12 - Hardware innovation stagnation 09:32 - Flow's products today 10:32 - New engineering management tools 12:38 - Scaling space companies 13:55 - Flow's business model 14:39 - Other markets Flow is targeting 15:40 - The go-to market strategy 16:45 - How do you convince clients to adopt a new engineering process? 19:29 - Flow's philosophy 22:30 - SpiderOak ad break 23:14 - Who makes up Flow's customer base? 24:06 - The ideal Flow customer 25:32 - How has systems engineering changed since the Apollo era? 28:48 - What does a modern engineering team look like? 33:12 - Will specialization create big enough markets? 35:44 - Flow's financing round 37:10 - Finance landscape for software companies building for hardware 39:15 - What's it like building a team in London? 39:58 - What does the world look like if every company is using Flow? 42:10 - If Pari wasn't building Flow, what would he be building? 42:55 - Companies that excite Pari 44:20 - What London football team does Pari support? • Show notes • Flow's website — https://flowengineering.com/ Flow's socials —   / flow_engineer   Pari's socials —   / paritheengineer   Mo's socials —   / itsmoislam   Payload’s socials —   / payloadspace   /   / payloadspace   Pathfinder archive — Watch:    / @payloadspace   Pathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us • Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 15,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We’re also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world. Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we’re a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing three media properties across multiple platforms: 1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern (https://newsletter.payloadspace.com/) 2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com) 3) Polaris, our weekly policy publication, hits inboxes Tuesday (https://polaris.payloadspace.com/) 4) Parallax, our weekly space science briefing, hits inboxes Thursday (https://parallax.payloadspace.com/)