|
Key Benefits
EP on-line's focus on being template and check list driven, as well as the extensiveness of the knowledge base provides significant benefits to hardware and software developments. All of the benefits from applying
EP on-line result in:
- Increased productivity - of all team members through "boilerplated" templates, check lists and having an on-line process
- Increased quality - on all outputs through detailed work instructions, quality inducing best practices and extensive templates
- Increased project control
- by managing the development through the "eyes" of the process with in-built progress feedback loops and an extensive suite of project management work instructions, check lists and templates
- Reduced risk - through risk reduction process activities, process feedback loops, specialist project management work instructions and the iterative development approach
All facets of engineering developments directly benefit from applying EP on-line to produce:
- Faster and more focused development
- the highly "boilerplated" templates, the check lists and the on-line access means the team can focus on the project/product specific aspects of their work and efficiently produce the essential development artifacts (requirements specifications, design documents, source code, schematics, test procedures, etc)
- Consistent approach
- both the development process and its essential artifacts will now be consistent across the team, across the projects and across the entire company - saving time, ensuring familiarity and increasing the understanding as well as producing a more professional output for delivery to your customers
- Repository of best practices - the EP on-line process encapsulates all the essential best practices from industry providing proven techniques which save time, increase quality and provide a comprehensive educational infrastructure for the entire team - which you can continue to add to
- Clearly defined direction - on how to perform the tasks and where they fit into the "big picture" - this has an amazing effect on keeping the team focus
- Highly integrated environment
- bringing the myriad of your third party applications together in a logical view through the "eyes" of the development process - the templates are launched directly into your associated application ready to work on within the context of the development process
- Cross platform access - so no matter what piece of gear your running, if you can run a web browser on it, you can run your process on it
- Efficient access to the process
- via your intranet, the team can quickly navigate to the activity within the process they are performing, bookmark it in their web browser if they wish, and start working on the activated template
- Efficient means of updating the process - via a central electronic repository, with a work instruction, several templates and some automated scripts to help you tailor EP on-line to meet your specific needs - no more hunting for those 20 or 30 hard-copies of your "QA System", half of which can't be found...
- and many more direct benefits from day-one...
|
