Project Management:
3D
Project Management™
Discovery, Disclosure, and Design, the first 3
steps to a successful product development. As a company grows it becomes
more difficult make decisions on which ideas and projects need to more forward,
market needs and technical solutions become blurred.
The Controltools team has years of RF and Embedded
Solutions experience We can help you make the critical technology
decisions on processors, OS, and development systems. We have experience
with all of the embedded Real time Operating Systems and Integrated Development
Environments. The team at ControlTools™ can facilitate a dialog between team
members to expose the core issues of market needs and technical solutions.
This dialog follows these three basic steps:
Discovery of the the need
Disclosure of the issues
Design of the product, project schedule and budget
Discovery
Collecting and documenting the why and the what,
is the foundation of a successful product. It can also be the most
frustrating and time consuming part of the project. This phase is often
rushed and investments are made on "gut feel" not sound market information or
technical evaluation. The team at ControlTools™ is experienced at bridging
the gap and sometimes "Language Barrier" between sales, marketing and
engineering. Acting as a time management tool the ControlTools™ team
streamlines this phase and acts as a third party sounding board to get the key
issues to the surface and written down. This speeds up development and
insures features and benefits are justified. The goal in this step; is to
use this dialog to produce a clean usable set of development documents.
Usable means organized and readable documents, not documents meant to "bore" the
other side into submission.
The three basic documents required for an
informed, on-time, and on-budget project are;
Marketing Requirement Document (MRD) - The why and
the what the market needs...
Technical Requirements Document (TRD) - The
how we can satisfy the market ...
Product Investment Profile (PIP) - The "Why" and
"How" as a company we profit ...
Working the process to develop these documents
will help your "Teams" become "A Team", plus provide management with the
information required to make sound investments based on realistic schedules and
budgets.
Disclosure
Disclosure is the process of collecting the
supporting documentation for the MRD and TRD. This can be actual component
pricing, competitor information, and/or older design or source code evaluation.
These elements are often optimistically "guesstimated" and are the leading cause
cause of schedule delays and/or budget overruns.
Design
The phase brings it all together into a design
overview and development schedule and is the foundation of a successful
design.
Key Benefits
Capabilities
The team at
ControlTools™ has been involved in projects product development projects large
and small. We have experience with new products and product lines development.
Plus, helping companies large and small with evaluating and developing migration
paths and end-of-life strategies for existing product lines.
We can help your team develop the skills to hit their schedule and budget
targets. For more information on how we can help please contact us today.
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