Electronics & Networking

Product development organizations in the Electronics and Networking industry face increasing competitive pressure to deliver new products and enhancements ahead of the competition, to capture maximum market share. This market pressure is intensified by product management demands, customer commitments, support escalations and resource reprioritization. Formal program management offices are beginning to take shape to help address these challenges, however a large share of project and resource managers still work in cross-functional engineering organizations. The sum total of these parts usually results in chaos managed across disparate silos of project execution information making on time delivery a rare event.

To succeed in this environment the entire engineering team must be enabled via a live repository of product schedules and team allocations enabling informed decisions as work is prioritized and executed across the organization. To ensure predictable results, the product schedule must distribute accountability across the entire team and provide proper visibility to key stakeholders at all levels. Ancillary organizations - product management, marketing, quality, manufacturing and documentation - must also benefit from visibility and schedule participation. Each team must be empowered to manage their schedules, adjust resource / schedule priorities, react to change and collaboratively track status via role-based decision support dashboards.

CrossPoint delivers a solution that meets these demanding requirements enabled by a traditional top down or team-based bottom up implementation approach; in either case roll outs are structured to provide early wins helping to build solution momentum and advocacy while enabling successful project execution. CrossPoint provides the following solution capabilities enabling on time delivery in your product driven organization:

• Product centric, real-time scheduling that connects diverse cross-functional teams across organizations
• Schedule visibility at all levels - portfolio, project and task - including status, issues, changes and financials
• Increased accountability via distributed plan management at program, team and individual contributor levels
• Reduce risk through early insight into potential program slippage enabled by the CrossPoint calculation engine
• Accurate forecasts for new product release schedules and resource availability using "real" project data
• Visibility to what resources are really working on - track and manage all work items: project tasks, unplanned work, action items, escalations, issues, risks, and others
• Flexible process management supporting organizational goals and best practices - Six Sigma, ISO, lean engineering practices
• Program traceability for regulatory compliance, SOX, FASB, as well as internal metrics - product release approvals
• Schedule impact analysis - assess the schedule / resource impact for changing project requirements, resources and priorities
• Self documenting projects and tasks capture full execution history, collaborations and attachments as a natural bi-product of system use
• Ease of use - CrossPoint was designed from the ground up for real-time schedule and resource management, ensuring that all users benefit from the solution with minimal administrative overhead

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