1. or
Design for Total Cost
Leveraging the organization to better projects and
business effectiveness throughout the full life-cycle by
using state of the art methods and disciplines

2. Life Cycle Structure
Manufacturing
Deployment
Product Product &
Initiation Initiation
Product
Planning
KECP
Product
Development
Feedback
(Strategic Concept) (Market needs) &
End of Life

3. Functional Groups Involved in the LIFE-CYCLE
 Marketing
 Legal
 Finance
 Information Systems
 Human Resources
 Operational
 Engineering Support
 Tools
 CADs
 Manufacturing
 purchasing
 Product Group
 Management
 R&D
 Development
 Verification & Validation

4. Industry Practices
Current in Use Additional
 CMMI  Measurements
 PSM
 LEAN  GDM
 Six Sigma  BSC
 PMBOK  BD-CMM
 ITIL
 SCRUM / Agile / XP
 P-CMM
 OPM3
 SWEBOK
 eSCM for CL / P
 TMM
 SSE – CMM
 KMM

5. The Expected Coverage
P-CMM / SSE-CMM
eSCM
BD-CMM PMBOK & OPM3 BD-CMM
Manufacturing
Deployment
Product Product &
Initiation Initiation
Product
Planning
KECP
Product
Development
Feedback
(Strategic Concept) (Market needs) &
TMM
SCRUM / XP / Agile End of Life
ITIL KMM IT and Engineering Support Tools
BSC GDM Monitoring, Control and Metrics PSM

6. How to Use It
 Its all about:
 Common Sense
 Balance
 Establish only what is valuable to you
 Maintain only what is beneficial for you
 Identify and aim to the business objective

7. Filter if to Our Needs

10. Suggested Life Cycle Gates (partial)
 Suggested Life Cycle Gates
 Product Roadmap review
 Business Plan review
 Requirements Review
 Product Plan Review
 ARC & WBS Review
 High Level Design (HLD) Review
 Functional Design Review (FDR)
 Verification (VER)
 Validation (VAL)
 Product tree readiness
 Integration Test
 Production readiness
 User Acceptance Test (UAT)
 Full Production
 Feedback And maintenance
 Post Mortem
 Defects
 Lesson learned
 Product retirement

11. Suggested Vertical Elements (partial)
 Domain – cluster of common areas
 Product Initiation
 Requirements
 Development
 Operational
 Engineering Support
 Quality Assurance and Control
 Measurements
 Management

12. Suggested Vertical Elements (partial)
Area – cluster of common processes / sub-process
 Product Initiation  Quality Assurance and Control
 Gathering needs (i.e. market / costumer)  Reviews
 Needs analysis  Audits
 Process Assurance
 Product Description
 Measurements
 Requirements  Definitions
 Customer  Collection
 Technical  Analysis
 Non-technical  Communication
 Development  Corrective Action
 Design  Management
 Development  Portfolio
 Verification  Project
 Integration  Development Support
 Legal
 Validation
 Finance
 Operational  Regulations
 Manufacturing
 Customer Support
 Maintenance
 Engineering Support
 Configuration Management
 Tools
 Environments
 Design Support

13. Suggested Life Cycle Gates
Suggested Life Cycle Structure (partial)
Pre-commercialization
Phase 0
Phases 1 – 2 Phases 3 – 4 Phases 5 – 6 Phase 7 Life-Cycle
Management
Gate 6
Gate 7 Gate 8
Gate 4 “Shipping Approval”
Gate 2
Gate 0
Full Feedback
VAL
HLD Production And
Review Product maintenance
Requirements VER
Review tree
Product FD Product
Product readiness retirement
Plan Review
Roadmap Integration
Review
review Test
ARC & WBS UAT
Review Production
BP
review readiness
Life Cycle Monitoring & Control Ongoing
Status Meetings Activities
Process and Product Quality Reviews