Project Management for Families
of Products
Michal Iluz
Avy Shtub
Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology
Agenda
• What is a family of products
• The family of Broadband NET SDR
• Use of a simulator to examine the impact of managing a family of products
• Results
• Summary and conclusions
• Manage the portfolio as a family
• When should we do it
• What is the benefit
• What are the risks
• Scheduling considerations
• Quality considerations
• Cost considerations
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BNET – Broadband NET SDR
Video, Voice & Data on-the-move
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1997 1999 2004 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
RAVNET
1
RAVNET
DL Missile
1 Uplink-1
GDL-1
¾ ATR
Missile
Uplink 2
GDL-2
½ ATR
NETCOR
DLV-53
MF
classified
Sea Vision
Mirjam
SKY Shield
BNET
Advanced True SDR Solution based on >15 years of Evolution
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NETCOR # | RF Module 1 | RF Module 2 |
1 | UHF - MANET | L - MANET |
2 | V/UHF AM/FM + Guard | UHF SATCOM |
NETCOR SDR – Modular & Powerful with Embedded Growth
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The Project Team Builder™ (PTB™) is a training environment and a decision support system for systems engineers and project teams. PTB™ won the PMI 2008 product of the year award
“The experience project managers gain during the simulation is invaluable everything that takes place is based on actual project data, ensuring that the project manager’s education is a pragmatic experience versus an academic one.” Brian Weiss, vice president of product management for PMI.
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Using the Project Team Builder Simulator to analyze product families projects
• The simulator simulates the real situation
• Using the simulator technological and
managerial alternatives are developed and tested
• The project team uses the simulator as a
“sandbox” to perform what if analysis
• The simulator presents cost, schedule, risk and
benefit analysis of each alternative
• The simulator creates “shared understanding” among project team members regarding the preferred alternative.
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Disadvantages
• Change management is more difficult
• Difficult to synchronize the schedules and deliveries of several projects
• Less flexibility in management
• Additional constraints
• The parallel option minimize learning
• A failure is affecting several
projects
Advantages
• Development of building blocks for future use
• Joint effort and cost reduction
• Better deals with
subcontractors due to economy of scale
• Lower overhead cost
• Common labs and infrastructure
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Hardware:
• From the component level
• To the subassembly level
• To the system level
Software:
• From the component level
• To the module level
• To the system level
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Summary and conclusions
• The PTB simulator supports the examination ot a large number of operational and technological alternatives of families of products projects.
• Our current research focuses on the development and evaluation of methodologies for using the PTB to support decision making.
We look for research partners who manage families of products systems engineering projects
We are willing to collaborate with project teams
interested in testing and evaluating our methodology
Contact: Michal Iluz
Phone: 97252-4291334
Mail: michali@tx.technion.ac.il
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