R&D best practices on Project Management

Highlights

45 to 49 best practices structured into 4 categories and 13 domains, to obtain a synthetic and detailed vision for each of the project management domains.
Service allowing two uses:

• learn good R&D or engineering practices
• evaluate the R&D practices in relation to the best thanks to its online questionnaire functionality

The evaluation embeds Lean development / Lean engineering.
Number of questions / best practices depending on the type of industry; conditioned by a choice at the beginning of the questionnaire.

Project management best practices model in R&D and Engineering

Customer value

• Needs: how are needs captured and formalised?
• Requirements management: how are its requirements used to define specifications, in what form and how are they monitored?
• Change management: how are change requests formalized, analyzed, validated...?

Performance monitoring

• Operational monitoring: which operational indicators are monitored?
• Financial monitoring: which financial indicators are monitored? Is there a project Business Case?

Supporting processes and tools 

• Development stages: Does the project follow a standard step-by-step development process?
• Resourcing: how are project team members assigned to the project?
• Software and tools: tools to support the project such as a project monitoring tool or technical data management tools?

Project activity management

• Planning: Does the project use an operational planning with a breakdown into project tasks?
• Project team: how is the project and its members organized?
• Project monitoring: what mechanisms (meetings, risk monitoring, etc.) are used to monitor project activities and make decisions?
• Tools and templates: Are there standard and adapted documentary templates for the project?
• Subcontracting and procurement: how are the interfaces with subcontracting or suppliers managed?

 

Example of usage for evaluation

In-depth assessment of your Research, Development or Engineering, focused on Project management to enable you and your team to:

• precisely understand project management strengths and weaknesses through quantified data allowing internal and even external comparisons
• define new project management ways of working, trainings, or other improvement actions
• define targeted areas to monitor closely on project management
• easily compare improvements and progress at different points in time