Round 1: Case Study: How to determine FTE for a client specified system when not enough capacity?
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Discussed: #Clarification of development vs production #Computing the Critical Path and determine prioritised activities #Benchmarking stages; use past data or simply ask the relevant managers #If capacity is limited look at what can be re-used and re-purposed from previous systems; focus on what still needs to be developed (which has the greatest uncertainties) #Look at cross-fertilisation/synergies (called 'commonalities' at ASML) that can be leveraged to foster innovation and new processes (Interview after-thoughts: client-orientation, how to leverage co-creation to predict future needs; how to encourage trust and cooperation between teams to leverage commonalities; how to ecourage process improvements and an iteration mentality and reduce communication chains?)
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