| IPPD Program Assessment software - a methodology for benchmarking and improvement |
IPPD PROGRAM ASSESSMENTDRM Associates |
DRM Associate's Program Assessment methodology is used to benchmark and assess your program's development process against 180 best practices for integrated product and process development (IPPD). This assessment serves as a benchmark and identifies the highest impact opportunities for further improvement. This overall methodology is described in Benchmarking Best Practices to Improve Product Development. The assessment would typically take two to four weeks depending upon the program's size and the complexity of the development process. Prior to conducting the assessment, we would review your program's organization chart and any other descriptive material you provide and discuss your program by phone. Based on this, we would typically conduct five to fifteen days of interviews, walk-through's, and process reviews. The reviews can cover not only the contractor's organization, but also the program acquisition organization and major subcontractor and partners. Eighteen assessment categories are addressed:
At the conclusion of this review, we will sit down with you and other
members of your program management team to offer specific recommendations
as well as debrief you using our assessment forms. Where necessary, we would
explain certain IPPD concepts to your program management team so that they
would understand why a recommended improvement was appropriate. We can discuss
priorities based on gap analysis (weak rating versus a strong importance
of the dimension), dimensions that seem out of balance, and our experience.
We can then help develop a preliminary action plan to "close the gap"
and improve in areas related to the program's critical success factors.
We will leave a copy of our Integrated Product and
Process Development Program Assessment software with you so that you
can perform on-going self-assessments in the future. Training
in this benchmarking and assessment methodology is also available. |