Projects rely on skills to succeed

Stakeholders are under great pressure during projects. It is necessary to somehow get the guarantee of best practices:

- Non Disclosure Agreements
- Work Packages externalization
- Achieve Industrial Maturity
- Protect against Design Protection
- Obsolescence Management during Design
- Risky use of "open" source code or "free"wares
- Supply risks reviews created by the design
- ... and much more

Work Packages externalization:

If you have heard about work breakdown structure, you know that a work package is a subset of a project that can be assigned to a specific party for execution.

Work Packages externalization is similar to the Make or Buy activity, but relates to the externalization of design.

The main idea is as following: there are work packages that are "core" to your business, others that are not. Focus on what really constitutes your product matters. Delegate the design of the non-core work packages to sub-contractors or suppliers, with a final cost requirement.

Industrial Maturity:

Maturity is the state of a Product that guarantees its availability to operate and its industrial Performance.

If your very first released version of a product is never changed during its life cycle, you have achieved a very high level of Maturity.

Industrial Maturity has to be created during the design, but is sometimes defeated by the urge to release the product. Some arrangements are to be made prior and along the project to ensure to achieve this goal.

Design Protection

Design protection comes from Global Manufacturer's policy to encourage distributors to implement products from their brand in your business.

It is possible that the order for samples (even free samples) will oblige your Purchasing dept to work with Suppliers that are not even known by your Purchasing dept.

An awareness campaign about design protection may dramatically reduce your supplies risks and costs.

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