Program Management

Activities

• Establish Project Baseline Plan for most efficient resource utilization and predictable product completion (schedules, budgets and staffing, resource plan development)
• Project Risk Analysis, Management & Ongoing Mitigation
• Continuous monitoring and active adjustment to ensure project remains on-schedule, on-budget and meets program requirements
• Real-time adaptation of program plan to changes in program scope or technical discovery during the R&D phase
• Technical architecture validation to ensure that project hits program business goals
• Detailed Resource and Material Tracking
• Vendor and Supply Chain Management
• Design Control Management
• Design History File (DHF) Management
• Project Status Updates
• Formal Stage Gate Program Reviews
• Issue Tracking, Management & Resolution
• Defect Management and Tracking (With Web based tools)
• Multiple site development
• New Product Introduction
• Single Point of Contact

Tools

• MS Project, GANTT charts, WBS
• Extensive D&K project knowledge base
• i-Project: Proprietary Status, Effort,  Material tracking and reporting tool

Characteristics

• Customer Service Focused
• Flexible Management Process Suitable to Project Requirements (management resource allocation scaled to size of program)
• Co-development management when applicable
• Concurrent engineering management
• History of performance to tight schedules and budgets
• Responsible for client satisfaction
• Industry-specific development processes