Managing Projects through Deliverables

Context

Headlines often illustrate that a bad control of  new product development  projects can dramatically affect performance.

Example of the Airbus A380 project :

« The A380 is ready. This morning in Toulouse, Airbus delivered to Singapore Airlines its first A380, 18 months behind schedule.
The company CFO indicated that the break-even point initially estimated at 240 aircraft would most likely come close to 420 planes. »

Stakes and Overview

New Product Development Projects are based on data sharing and delivrables exchange between many actors and rely on complex processes. Mastering data is the key to success, so is the structure of the sequenced deliverables exchanged during the development process.

The Challenges of Mastering of Design Data :

Quest for Data is time-consuming
Stakeholders in the Design Process have limited confidence in the data they handle 
Data evolution and modifications are badly controlled

The Consequences of Non-mastering of Design Data :

Development additional costs
Deadlines frequently not respected
Poor Quality of end Products

The management of projects through deliverables aims at steer development project by measuring the progress of deliverables resulting of the design instead of focusing on tasks.

Project Management through Deliverables is a key to the effectiveness of the design and development of new products. Its impact is measured in average reductions in the following topics :

• 10% of Development Costs,
• 20% of Development Cycle Time,
• 30% of Engineering Change Requests (ECR) instruction Cycle Time,
• 40% of ECR total number

This Methodology is one of the major tools of Lean Engineering. By reducing the task batch sizes, it allows to reduce cycle times, improve the quality of the process through faster feedback and significantly reduce the fixed costs of planning.

Next Steps : How to go further ?

We have developed a full Methodology for Managing Projects Through Deliverables to tackle the issues.

You can have a full Overview of it thanks to a presentation file  which :

You can receive a full presentation file of the Management through Deliverables if you send us a request at : info@vinci-consulting.com