1. WHY IPPD? WHY NOW?

• The Driving Forces
  • Budgets & Development Cycles
  • Acquisition Streamlining
• Integrated Product Development - Achievements by Industry
• A Framework of 180 Best Practices for IPPD

2. IPPD-ORIENTED PROGRAM PLANNING

• An IPPD Approach Determining Customer Needs & Structuring an RFP
• Strategies for Acquisition Streamlining with a Customer Proposal
• Addressing IPPD in a Proposal & Responding to the Perry Memo
• Developing an Integrated Plan Oriented to IPPD
  • Top-Down Planning of the WBS, SOW and IPT Structure with IMP/IMS
  • IPT Planning and Bottom-Up Validation
• Starting the Program Right with IPPD
• Empowered Project Management & Resourcing the Critical Path

3. ORGANIZING FOR IPPD

• Developing a Program Organization with Integrated Product Teams (IPT's)
  • Role of the Program Management Team
  • Role of the System Integration Team (SIT)
  • Role of the Integrated Product Team
  • Integrating Subcontractors on IPT's
  • Defense Program - Team Structure Case Study
  • Evolving the Role of Customer Representatives on IPT's & SIT's
  • Customer Internal Team Structure
• Planning Manpower Requirements with IPT's
• Re-orienting Contractor & Customer Management Practices with Teams
  • What Empowerment Means & Doesn't Mean for Contractor and Customer Personnel
  • Flattening the Contractor & Customer Organization Structure
  • Re-orienting Performance Appraisals & Reward Systems
• Managing & Supporting Teams
  • Practical Approaches to Collocation & Virtual Collocation as an Alternative
  • "Internal" & "External" Factors Affecting Team Success
  • Team Leader Responsibilities
  • Developing Effective Team Collabora-tion and Decision-Making
  • Collaboration Exercise
  • Realistic Team Development and Training

4. DEFINING, MANAGING & FLOWING DOWN REQUIREMENTS

• Understanding the Voice of the Customer as a Starting Point
• Strategies for Insuring Performance-Oriented Requirements
• Requirements & Specifications Manage-ment
• Using QFD to Translate Customer Requirements into Product & Process Characteristics
• Solid Rocket Motor QFD Case Study
• QFD Product Planning Matrix Exercises
• Optional Concept Selection, and Deployment Matrix Exercises
• Integrating Systems Engineering & Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Effective Customer Involvement in Defining & Managing Requirements

5. OPTIMIZING PRODUCT & PROCESS DESIGN

• Designing a Producible Product
  • Ten Rules of Design for Manufac-turability/Assembly (DFM/A) with Examples
  • Developing Producibility Guidelines
  • Using DFM/A Analysis Tools
• Designing Quality In
  • Process Capability & Variation Reduction
  • Optional Process Capability Exercise
  • Designing Quality in and Creating a Robust Design through Design of Experiments (DOE)
  • DOE Case Study
  • A Framework for Quality Engineering
• Design to Low Cost
  • Ten Steps to Achieve a Design to Cost (DTC) Program
  • Cost as an Independent variable
  • A "Should Cost" Approach to System Acquisition & Development
  • Establishing & Allocating Cost Targets
  • Using Product Cost & Life Cycle Models to Guide Development Decisions
  • Using Function Analysis System Technique (FAST) and the Value Analysis Matrix to Maximize Function vs. Cost
  • FAST Diagram Exercise
  • Activity-Based Costing (ABC) to Improve Decisions Related to Product & Process Design
• Addressing Reliability, Maintainability, Testability and the Life Cycle During Development

6. ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

• Using a Common Digital Product Model
  • Product Data Standards & STEP
  • Configuration Management with Product Data Management Systems
  • CALS & Data Interchange with Customers and Suppliers
• Integrated CAD/CAE Tools to Support IPPD Objectives
  • Solids Modeling, Assembly Modeling & Digital Pre-Assembly
  • Electrical Design Automation (EDA) Tools & Top-Down Design
  • Analysis-Driven Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
• Integrating Design and Manufacturing with CAD/CAM
• Knowledge Organization & Design Re-Use
• Avoiding Technology Pitfalls

7. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

• Establishing a Repeatable (vs. Ad-Hoc) Development Process
• Creating Process Flexibility While Maintaining a Common Baseline Process
• Improving the Development Process with Process Reengineering
• Using IPPD Metrics and Cost/Schedule Performance to Manage & Improve Development
• Integrating Design and Production with an Effective Transition Plan

8. IMPLEMENTATION - MAKING IT HAPPEN

• Assessing Your Product Development Process Against the Best Practices
• Developing an Overall Improvement Plan
• Creating a IPD Environment
• Avoiding the Pitfalls - Applying Lessons Learned