Overview of Design and Development Process

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Overview ofDesign and Development Process
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Design
Design Process is about organizing activities so
that the conceptual idea and end product are the
same
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Design Issues

• Good engineering practice
• Best technical solution to the problem
• Most cost effective solution to the problem
• Product completeness
• Communication of design to others
• Review by whole organization

Design Process is also about identifying ALL
important consideration in making a product
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What are Design Processes ?

• Set of Rules and Guidelines to aid in the
  development of products
• Specify how the design organization will operate
  during the development of a product
• Design Reviews, Code Reviews
• Documents required
• Analysis of the results
• Standard Mechanisms
• Sub-Processes and Procedures
• Checklists
• Templates

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Why follow a process?

• Advantages
• Repeatability
• Higher Quality with Continual Improvement
• Decreases time to market IF properly structured
• Less cost across the complete Product Life Cycle
• Cross-department information is communicated
  better
• Disadvantages
• Can become bureaucratic IF mis-managed
• Can increase time to market IF mis-managed

Processes should be GUIDELINES not the law
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The Design Process
Idea
Product
Design Process is about organizing activities so
that the conceptual idea and end product are the
same
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Product Life Cycle
Deliverables
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Senior Design Process

• The Final Documentation Template drives the
  process
• Sections of the Final Documentation package
  conform to the deliverables of the Product Life
  Cycle
• Schedule of Milestones aligned with order of
  Activities
• Project Agreements and Project Plans drive
  specific activities within the schedule

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Final Documentation Template

• Template on the Web page in the Class Documents
  Table
• Format and Outline of the Document
• Brief descriptions of the content required for
  each section

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Final Document Outline

• I. Executive Summary
• II. Newsletter
• III. Project Report
• A. Introduction
• B. Background
• C. Product Requirements
• D. Design Alternatives
• E. Design Specifications
• F. Design Description
• G. Construction Details
• H. Costs
• IV. User Instructions
• Appendices

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History of Quality Processes
Marketing Sales Corporate

• ALL large companies use a Design Process
• MOST small companies use some form of Design
  Process
• Methodologies
• Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Dr. W. Edwards Deming father of TQM
• Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
• ISO9000 driving most of the processes used today

ISO9000 Compliance almost a necessity to sell
products today
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Project Agreements
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Project Agreements

• Contract between Sponsor and Project Team
• Defines the criteria for the project grade (2/3
  of final grade)
• Two versions
• Preliminary
• Sets the dates for all major events specific to
  your project
• More accurate for front end activities
  (pre-Product Design)
• More like target for later activities
  (post-System Design)
• Updated (optional)
• Can be modified after design investigations and
  critical design review
• May include changes to dates, activities, project
  scope, etc.

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Project Agreement Contents (1)

• Participants
• Objective of the project
• Simple one sentence statement of what the product
  does.
• Description of the scope of the project
• Narrative paragraph stating briefly the major
  components.
• List of major project tasks.
• Schedule
• Keyed to the list of tasks
• Milestone list or a graphic format (Gaant or CPM
  Chart)

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Project Agreement Contents (2)

• Responsibilities of Sponsor and Faculty Advisor
• BE VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT EQUIPMENT OR TOOLS BEING
  PROVIDED INCLUDING DATES
• Good place to specify help you expect
• Examples weekly meetings, algorithms,
  facilities, reviews
• Grading criteria.
• Exact repeat of the statement in the Syllabus
• Dated Team and Approval Signatures

Example of Project Agreement on Senior Design Web
Site