Phased Delivery
Move approved new technology research projects to conclusion through defined project phases such as initial research, prototyping, proof-of-concept testing, and so on.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Phased Delivery at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Rely on best endeavours of available personnel.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Use organization's existing project management methodology for high-investment and strategic projects.
- Outcome
- High-end projects may perform better than other RDE projects in terms of on-time/on-budget delivery and other project parameters.
- Metric
- Project performance time and cost type metrics.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Develop project management artefacts in accordance with the prescribed methodology for all projects.
- Outcome
- RDE projects tend towards a common or standard level of performance.
- Metric
- # and % of RDE projects using prescribed methodology.
- 4Advanced
- Practices
- Use RDE specific versions of the project management artefacts and tools.
- Use collaboration tools, technologies and techniques to manage interaction between RDE project stakeholders.
- Outcome
- The cost/efficiency ratios for RDE projects are improved.
- Metric
- Trends in cost/efficiency ratios over time (a cost/efficiency ratio might be derived from the total cost of an RDE project over the value contributed by that project).
- 5Optimized
- Practices
- Perform post-implementation review for all projects above an agreed threshold.
- Apply lessons learned to continual review of the process.
- Outcomes
- Lessons learned are surfaced and are fed into process improvement routines.
- The efficiency and effectiveness of the RDE process improves.
- Metric
- # of discrete ‘lessons learned’ that are identified and noted for action.