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Telit R&D Project Management
Author: M. Fragiacomo, D. Protti, M. Torelli Telit Mobile Terminals S.p.A. viale Stazione di Prosecco 5/b
Sgonico (Trieste) Date: 15/11/2001
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• The Telit R&D Division is organised according to four main areas: Advance Development, Product Development, Technologies and Software Methodologies.
• The Advance Development area deals with basic or applied R&D development activities.
• The Product Development area aims to the development of product.
• The Techologies Area deals with the development and test of physical platforms.
• The Software Methodologies Area aim to the improvement of the software development.
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OUTPUT AREA - INCOMES
IMPUT AREA - COSTS
PlatformDevelopment
ProductDevelopment
ProcessEngineering
Factory
University ResearchesSilicon vendor
High TechnologiesKnow How
Technology PlatformsMMI Software
Final products(prototypes)
Final Products
Validated platformsKnow How
Demostrators
Designed Products(Lucent like)
Engineered Products(UbiNetics like)
ToolsFinal Products
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Telit R&D Organisation Breakdown
MIS STAFF
ASWSW Integration
HW RF Analog HW Digital HW VALIDATIONPhysicalDesign
ElectricCAD
ProductEngineering
Prototyping
R&D
Product development
ENGINEERING
ProjectManagers
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Telit R&D Organisation Breakdown
TechnologiesDevelopment
Platform Development
ProductTests
Research &Standards
EMCProtocol
StackApplications Layer1
Operating Systems& Tools
HDB HW RF
SOFTWARE HARDWARE
Advanced DevelopmentTechnologies SW Methodologies
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• The activities are organised in projects performed by teams deriving from the various functional departments of each area. At this aim the R&D organisation is a matrix.
• In the columns of the matrix the functional departments are present and ruled by department leaders. In the rows the projects (both thematic and product) co-ordinated by the project managers are present. See Organisation chart for clarification.
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Matrix Organisation
Dept. A Dept. B Dept. C Dept. D Dept. E
Project Manager 1
Project Manager 2
Project Manager 3
AdvancedDevelopment
Business Management
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The projects are of two basic categories: thematic (platform) projects and product projects. In thematic projects hardware, software or mechanic activities not directly related to a specific product are carried out.
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Product projects, planned in order to obtain a pre-industrial product, include activities for the realisation of parts even designed or developed in thematic projects. In respect of time to market requests it is necessary to co-ordinate the product project activities with the ones of one or more thematic projects.
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It is better sometimes to think of a product project as a multi-project programme, including several thematic projects as part of it. The software groups work on several thematic projects; these projects converge into one or more product projects. We can say that various thematic projects form a programme leading to the finalisation of a product.
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The following picture from the document “GPRS Product Organisation“ is an example of a product project breakdown organisation. In the example the software area is compound by groups deriving for the functional departments and organised in thematic projects (e.g. 0148 – SW platform project, 0171 – Protocol Stack GPRS project).
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Purchasing Marketing
Engineering
RF Audio Base BandPow er
ManagementElectric
CADPhysicalProject
ProtoypingProduct
Engineering
Physical Tests and technological development
BaseSystem
(prj. 0148)
PS, L1 GPRS(0171, 0148 proj.)
PS GSMDoB
(0148 prj.)
MMI - UCI0(0218 proj.)
GPRS SW TEST
(0207 proj.)
Hardw are
GPRS Product
Softw are
GPRS Product Organisation
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Telit GPRS RoadMap: The relationships among thematic and product projects are depicted in the following figure from the document “Draft Mid-Term Telit R&D GPRS Product Roadmap”
First GPRS
Product
0148 SW platform
0148 L1 GPRS
0171 PS GPRS
0146 BlueTooth
0218 UCI 0 & BAS
0197/0148 DoB
0148 BS GPRS
GP
RS
Pro
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mm
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0207 GPRS TEST
Ad
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0230 GPRS VIDEO
GPRS Picture Phone
Second GPRS
Product
0228 New HW Platform
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• A roadmap is a mid-term plan of R&D activities.
• A roadmap is a document showing the availability of platforms and products and their mutual affection during the period of the mid-term plan.
• To develop a platform or a product activities are organised in projects.
• Sometimes a project is better referred to as a programme as more projects are necessary for the aim.
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• Each project must be organised by a pool of people deriving from the various organisational department in the organisational matrix. A project leader is request to drive the project but with a reference for the main functional phase (HW, SW, Physical Project).
• This must occur both in project and in platform projects.
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• Sometimes, a product project leader is required to co-ordinate the activities of the platform projects involved in the final product.
• Sometimes, more products will be integrated with the same features realised in more platform projects. In this case Platform and Product activities must be co-ordinate and linked.
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Mobile Terminals S.p.A.Platform & Product
APTIX
RESEARCHPHASE
PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT PHASE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTPHASE
• University;• European Projects;• Standardization;• Specifications;• Common tools;• Common
Methodology.
HW RF
PURCHASESpecification
HW Si discrete
components
ES Pi
HWDIGITAL FPGA
uP DSP
sw
PCB
IC SW
DESIGN
EVB
ALFABETA
PURCHASE
S
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S
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M
Physical project
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INVESTMENTS PROFITS
RESEARCH
SYSTEMDESIGN
PLATFORM
DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
6 -14 months
ETSI3G, 4G
V. Framework PRODUCTION
SALES
SERVICE SUPPORT,…..PHASE
OUT
ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT
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• A programme compound by more projects is also referred to as a multi-project programme
• In these case the project leaders of the linked projects of the programme form a committee for a continuous control of the main milestones.
Roadmap
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• Several platform projects contribute to the development of subsystems to be integrated into future products.
• These subsystems must be as stable as possible in order that they could be integrated into as many products as possible with little or no effort.
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• To prepare a roadmap several meetings are necessary, involving all the potential project and company leaders. Some main milestones must be fixed according to when the products must be issued on market.
• Each project leader will know when to produce deliverables. The platform project leaders will focus on these targets and, in the meanwhile, communicate possible critical paths that might rise.
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• Further meetings will be organised in order to focus all the critical paths and as a consequence the General Direction will be informed on possible investment needs.
• The Planning and Business Management office will collect all the information regarding time schedule, resource allocation, investment budget in order to cross all the data and to investigate possible labour overlapping and missing specifications.
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• At this aim each project leader will organise the project. The product project leader will work according to the project iter procedure (the template for the planning of a product project). The platform product project will first prepare a document for the specifications of the project and how the activities will be organised.
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• Each product project leader will deliver a feasibility report regarding the new product. The same document or a similar one will be required from the platform project leaders.
• The feasibility report is what is necessary to describe the project, the risks to be faced, the possible evolution and income, and to convince the company to realise the mentioned product. The following information will be requested:
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• Brief description of the product
• Project Planning • WBS (Work BreakDown structure)
• Necessary resources (Project Team or Organisation BreakDown Structure)
• The Time Schedule
• The Budget of Costs
• The Product cost
• The critical points
• Final Comment
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A last important highlight is the convergence of the roadmap with those of the silicon vendors involved into the platform projects. Hence, the milestones of the roadmap derive from the company inputs and from the links to those necessary for the development of new chipset and critical components.
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As a summary the following documents are issued for a product roadmap:
- the Feasibility Report(s – if a roadmap of products is required)
- the annexes regarding the Gantt Chart, the Detailed Budget, the Human Resources Allocation
- the roadmap of the product families and of project families (when platform projects are involved for the development of a new product)
- the detailed technical note (the description of the specifications of the product)
- other documents validating the project
- the evaluation of when and how big the returns will be
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Mobile Terminals S.p.A.Iter of a new product project
• The iter of a new product project is a template used for planning and management of a product project. It is mainly compound by engineering, design and development of hardware and mechanics parts with integration of software features. The software features are issued several times as new releases as outputs of thematic projects.
• The design process is compound by a certain number of stages quite enough to guarantee the process control.
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• Each stage include as many activities as possible as to obtain outputs which can be papers, physical deliverables (such as HW platform and so on) necessary to monitor the performance of the process.
• For each stage some indicators will be therefore evaluated and will constitute the inputs for the next stages.
The following figure depicts the process of the iter of a new product project.
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