"An Auerbach book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347) and index.

Projects and Project Managers ; Delivery ; Overview of Program/Project Management; Need for this Book; Comparison of Approaches; Automotive Industry Action Group ; Department of Defense ; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ; Electronics Industry Association ; Process Management Areas; Staged-Gate Methods in General; What is a Gate? ; Reasons for Gate Reviews ; Objectives ; Gate Targets ; Importance of Gate Targets Selection ; Measurement of Targets (Statistics) ; Example of a Phased Project ; Project Management; People ; Limited Resource ; Project Manager's role; Organization and Integration ; Customer Focus ; Brainstorming ; Technical Solutions ; Quality ; Facilitate Team Creation ; Conflict Resolution ; Product Development Team Meetings; Program Management; Embedded Development; Product Integrity and Reliability ; Product Integrity; System-Level Testing; Reliability; Cost ; Structure of Sections ; Technical Tools ; Delivery ; Axioms of Program Management; Supplier Selection; Supplier Evaluation ; Capability Maturity Model Integrated ; Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination ; Work Breakdown Structure; Resource Breakdown Structure; Project Estimating and Scheduling; Top Down Estimating ; Bottom Up Estimating ; Phased Estimating ; Project Evaluation and Review Technique ; CPM ; Network Diagram in General ; Constructive Cost Model II ; Product Integrity and Reliability ; Risk Management; Risk Taxonomy ; Risk Methodology ; Risk Quantification ; Assessment of Product Risk; Simulation and Modeling ; Verification ; Validation ; Stress Testing ; Reliability Testing ; Cost ; Project Acceptance Criteria; Payback Period; Return on Investment (ROI); IRR; Market Share; Project Cost Management ; Earned Value Management; Budget Controls ; Cost Performance Index ; Schedule Performance Index ; Cost Variance ; Schedule Variance ; Estimate at Completion ; Estimate to Completion ; Variance at Completion ; Quality, Function, Deployment, And Cost Status; War Story ; Human Resource; Systems Thinking; Project Manager Words; Concept ; Concept Overview ; Inception; Planning; Implementation; Regulation; Termination; Gate Targets --
Past View ; Gate Targets --

Future View ; Delivery ; Work Descriptions; Project Charter ; Statement of Work and Statement of Objectives ; SOW Detail ; Charters versus SOWs ; Product Integrity and Reliability ; Voice of the Customer; Quality Function Deployment ; Requirements and Constraints matrix ; Engineering Issues; Bills of Material (Engineering) ; Change Management (Engineering) ; Change Management (Project Management) ; Material Specification ; Engineering Specification ; Customer Specification ; Specification Reviews ; Special Product Characteristics ; Hardware Revision Levels ; Production Issues; Bills of Material (Manufacturing) ; Process Flow Diagram ; Special Process Characteristics ; Line Sequencing ; Quality Issues; Quality Requirements ; Reliability Requirements ; Product Assurance Plan ; Software Quality Assurance Plan ; Cost ; Request for Proposal; Contract Types (fixed, Etc); Pugh matrix --
Concept selection; Crashing Program Definition; Program Definition Risk; Funding Risk ; Reducing the Risk ; Technical Risk Assessment ; Reducing the Risk ; Schedule Risk ; Reducing the Risk ; Management Support; War Story ; Cutting Edge Components ; Herding Cats ; Product Development ; Product Development Overview ; Phase Objectives; Inception; Planning; Implementation; Regulation; Termination; Delivery ; Crashing Product Development; Schedule Compression ; Crashing Limitation ; Crashing Risk ; Fast Tracking ; Fast Tracking Risk ; Product Integrity and Reliability ; Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA); Design For Manufacture and Assembly; Prototype Builds; Key Product Characteristics; Design Verification; Product Development Risk; Design Requirements Risk ; Reducing the Risk ; Design Policy Risk ; Reducing the Risk ; Design Process Risk ; Reducing the Risk ; Design Analysis ; Reducing the Risk ; Parts and Materials Selection ; Reducing the Risk ; Software Design ; Reducing the Risk ; Design Reviews ; Reducing the Risk ; Design Release ; Reducing the Risk ; Product Requirements Risk ; New Equipment, Tooling, And Facility Requirements Gauges and Testing Equipment Requirements; Team Feasibility Commitment and Management Support; Cost ; Request For Quote; Make or Buy Analysis; Value Analysis; What is Value Analysis? ; Information Phase ; Functional Analysis ; Creative Phase ; Judgment Phase ; Development Phase ; Recommendation Phase ; Product Functional Decomposition ; Value Analysis Integrated into Design Process ; Outsourcing; Project Manager Involvement in Negotiations; Modular design; War Story ; Production site; Material availability; Battery; Commitment; Process Development ; Delivery ; Process Development Overview; Phase Objectives ; Initiate ; Plan ; Execute ; Control ; Closing ; Product Integrity and Reliability ; Process Flow; Ideal Process Flow ; Less than Ideal Process Flow ; Process Flow Under Control ; PFMEA; Key Control Characteristics; PCP; Special Proc

There are many books on project management and many on embedded systems, but few address the project management of embedded products from concept to production. "Project Management of Complex and Embedded Systems: Ensuring Product Integrity and Program Quality" uses proven Project Management methods, as well as elements of IEEE embedded software development techniques, to explain how to deliver a reliable complex system to market. This work walks managers through the stages of a project's life cycle so that they can anticipate and prepare for potential problems. This volume begins with a general discussion of project management, followed by an examination of the various tools used before a project is underway. The book then delves into the specific project stages: concept, product development, process development, validation of the product and process, and release to production. Finally, post-project stages are explored, including failure reporting, analysis, corrective actions, and product support. The book draws heavily on information from Department of Defense sources as well as systems developed by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford to standardize the approach to designing and developing new products. These automotive development and production ideas have universal value, particularly the concept of process and design controls. The authors use these systems to explain project management techniques that can assist developers of any embedded system. The methods explored can be adapted toward mechanical development projects as well. The text includes numerous 'war stories' offering concrete solutions to problems that might occur in production. Tables and illustrative figures are provided to further clarify the material. Organized sequentially to follow the normal life cycle of a project, this book helps project managers identify challenges before they become problems and resolve those issues that cannot be avoided.