Benchmark & Case Study

Lead Time Reduction in Product Development

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Challenge

Problems

  • Most projects completed with delays
  • High development costs

Root causes

  • Rework at advanced stages of development due to design problems
  • High complexity and redundancy of the legal documentation process
  • Communication failures between system teams (define the solution) and software (implement the solution)
  • Tests carried out at an advanced stage of development, not allowing agile correction of bugs found

The solution

  • Parallel design/preparation phases, allowing co-engineering sessions: a multidisciplinary team that defines and implements the solution
  • Go/No Go criteria ensure alignment between different project phases
  • Synchronization of all the teams involved, to ensure the follow-up of the process, with defined pacing
  • Daily follow-up of problems detected during testing and correction (continuous integration)

The Results

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Development Effort (Man.Days)

Development efforts reduced by 22%.

Lead Time

Project Lead Time

Project lead time reduced by 50%. 

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Time Spent on Documentation

Time spent on documentation reduced by 29%.

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