Sponsor: Jama Software

Do your systems engineering projects suffer from product-decision gridlock or arduous concept, design and validation phases that lead to unpredictable development costs and late releases?

Coordinating requirements management, verification and validation among the competing interests and inputs of multiple teams, all while striving to guarantee successful system development is a formidable challenge. But you have wise advocates on your side.

Designing a reliable test strategy requires broad, strategic thinking. The goal of verification is to ensure you release a best-quality system that meets customer expectations as documented in your early design concept and requirements gathering phases. To maximize the value of your test process, test your product objectives early.

The “smarter” and more complex modern systems get, the more complicated the process required to build them becomes. Systems engineering teams working in regulated industries, such as semiconductors, aerospace, defense and medical device manufacturing—as well as highly disruptive industries focused on embedded systems—suffer an unfair share of the pain of product and systems development and management. In such industries, the margins of operation have always been tight, with little to no room for error, and maintaining product integrity is difficult.

As products get smarter, building them right becomes a matter of managing complexity. Products have more requirements and companies have globally distributed teams and more products in their portfolios. But when a single new product, version or variant has thousands of requirements and interdependencies, the process of defining, engineering and managing them grows exponentially more complicated. Traceability becomes more challenging.

For product managers and their counterparts, the road to launch is a fight to keep every task, every detail, every change grounded in business goals. It’s not enough to be fast. Or to deliver the right product. You need to do both. This requires:

• Balancing the needs of many stakeholders to define a set of requirements for what’s being built, why and how.

• Prioritizing and re-prioritizing “must-have” mandates from multiple voices—everyone from front-end users to engineers to sales to support.

• Ensuring that what gets built is what every one expects.

This white paper outlines surefire ways you can establish and maintain a strong connection between intended outcomes, development methodologies and customer value.

When the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, our workplace looked very different from how it does today. Despite major changes in how we work, our interpretation of the Manifesto hasn’t changed in over a decade. So what does today’s Agile look like? Do the values of the Manifesto still apply? How can we evolve Agile concepts to tackle today's product-delivery challenges in a new way?

Download this eBook for an opportunity to rethink the Agile Manifesto. View Agile in a new light and deconstruct which concepts were home runs and which still need to evolve.

What if you could get the right product to market 18 percent faster? What would that mean to your bottom line? For the average 100-person team, 18 percent translates to $1.5 million a year, and puts about one to two hours back into the day of every person on the product team.

Business decisions = dollars. Get your money’s worth.

Download this whitepaper to learn how you can maximize return on your product delivery investment by getting the right products to market, faster and better than before.

Project management is a juggling act, with too many balls in the air at once. Anyone can learn to draw a Gantt chart, but effective project managers also rely on the savvy that comes from experience. Whether you are a rookie or a veteran PM, these tips, from people who’ve already done their tours of duty in the project management trenches, will help you drive project success in an unpredictable world.

You’ll learn 21 solid survival tips in the following categories:

1. Lay the foundation

2. Plan the project

3. Estimate the work

4. Track your progress

5. Learn for the future

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It’s not enough to be fast. Or to deliver the right product. Product Managers need to do both. How? This white paper outlines surefire ways you can establish and maintain a strong connection between intended outcomes, development methodologies and customer value.

When the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, our workplace looked very different from how it does today. Despite major changes in how we work, our interpretation of the Manifesto hasn’t changed in over a decade. So what does today’s Agile look like? Do the values of the Manifesto still apply? How can we evolve Agile concepts to tackle today's product-delivery challenges in a new way? Download this eBook for an opportunity to rethink the Agile Manifesto. View Agile in a new light and deconstruct which concepts were home runs and which still need to evolve. Download the eBook.

What if you could get the right product to market 18 percent faster? What would that mean to your bottom line? For the average 100-person team, 18 percent translates to $1.5 million a year, and puts about one to two hours back into the day of every person on the product team. Download this whitepaper to learn how you can maximize return on your product delivery investment by getting the right products to market, faster and better than before.

Project management is a juggling act, with too many balls in the air at once. Anyone can learn to draw a Gantt chart, but effective project managers also rely on the savvy that comes from experience. Whether you are a rookie or a veteran PM, these tips, from people who’ve already done their tours of duty in the project management trenches, will help you drive project success in an unpredictable world.