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Managing Excellence in Design Team Execution
 
One Day Workshop with your Design Team at your Site!
 
Workshop Scope


What your team will learn:
  1. Concepts that will Yield a New Level of Predictability in Design Team Execution
  2. How "Feature Creep" steals Productivity and what you can do About it
  3. Sources of schedule slips and how you can prevent them
  4. Six Simple Rules of Design Team Management
  5. Unknown/Unmanaged activities and how to Mitigate their Project Impact. Discovery and Solution.
  6. How Key Documentation will Improve your Timelines and Predictability
  7. Identifying and Communicating Critical Delivery Requirements for a Design Block
  8. Management of Design Requirements Closure
  9. Concepts to Facilitate the Creation of Realistic Schedules
  10. Removing Roadblocks to Internal IP Reuse
  11. Leveraging Design Reviews
  12. Best Practices - What is it and What Should it Include
  13. An Expanded Breadth of the Design Landscape to be Managed
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Target Audience:
    Primary:
  • IC Design Team Members
  • IC Design Team Managers & Directors
  • Program Managers

    • Secondary:
  • IC Product Line Managers & Directors
  • IC Product Managers
  • IC Product Engineers
  • Test Engineering
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What's Included:
  • Hardcopy of the Seminar Material
  • Access to the full day Seminar


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NPD Engineer,

In these highly competitive times everyone is extremely busy, making it difficult to find time to step back and look at how things are being done. At the same time a team that is to approach execution excellence must devote the critical time necessary to define a roadmap and strategy for improving their design processes. We have a solution to kick start the thought process and generate immediate concepts that a design team can implement on their projects thus enabling predictable and productive project execution.

Please read on to learn about an 8 hour investment that will yield a newfound understanding of the path to execution excellence - A one day workshop at your site, with your actual team, specifically developing enhancements to the teams development processes.

"Change nothing and nothing changes"

This workshop makes an excellent kickoff to a process renewal effort.

More About this Change Enabling Workshop
Many IC design project teams find themselves struggling with unexpected delays to their production plan. Intense time to market pressures demands an environment that prescribes improvement to both the predictability and length of design timelines. This workshop specifically targets those essential improvements by presenting additional, thought provoking concepts that will enhance the predictable nature of your IC design team.

Emphasis will be on enriching the IC design process a team uses by means of a revitalizing design management perspective. Participants should have an open mind, be willing to listen/talk, share design experiences and frustrations and participate in discussing ideas about doing things differently. This workshop takes a refreshing journey beyond the routine CAD and tool flow activities of design thus opening the door to possibilities for change in the way a design project is managed.

Your team will be learning together through analysis exercises for the teams existing development process. They will be discovering the areas in their development flow that are not working and will uncover solutions, as a fully cross-functional team. This workshop gets them started on a path to improvements that they are prepared to continue, upon return to their regular duties.

For your reference the full spectrum of design activities that must be managed are identified in the graphic below (Click on image for larger view). Checked items will be specifically addressed in this workshop.

WHEN: Set a date for your team Today!
TIME: Single 8 hour day or two 4 hour days.
LOCATION: At your work site with your team
COST: $700 per person plus instructor travel
  • Two day course has an additional fee.
  • Class size is a minimum of 15 and maximum of 25

Review the column to the upper left for an overview of the material that will be covered during the workshop. The detailed agenda may be downloaded via the link above.

Upon completion your team will be armed with concepts to develop comprehensive plans, tools to improve the design workflow and an expanded vision of managing design in a predictable manner. For more information Email Us with details of class size, location and potential dates and we will get a detailed quote off to you.

Testimonials
"We engaged with Jeff to tailor a workshop for our design team to help identify the critical areas of our design process that needed to be improved in order for us to achieve greater predictability and timlier execution to schedule and budget. Jeff delivered on everything he promised in an engaging and thought provoking all day session. Rather than just giving a one-way lecture, he was able to draw the team into discussion through small group breakout exercises to help the team feel and understand the issues. Our time with Jeff was very worthwhile and valuable"
- Marshall Lacoff, Sr. VP/GM, TLSI Inc.

"Jorvig Consulting Inc.’s seminar on design execution is an excellent overview of the important issues that product development teams face in IC development.  The seminar specifically addresses key areas such as managing the product definition process, risk management, and IP reuse.  Jeff Jorvig is a knowledgeable presenter and was able to answer the design teams detailed questions."
- Greg Waterfall, Product Line Director, Texas Instruments

"Jeff Jorvig’s seminar on design execution was very well received by my team. It was very engaging and thought provoking. Jeff presented the material well and did a good job of handling the questions and concerns. I am quite pleased with the overall results."
- Bob Atwell, Design Manager, Texas Instruments

Previous Clients
Workshop: Texas Instruments, Arizona; Atmel GmbH, Germany; Medtronic, Arizona
Hardcopy: Atemel GmbH, Germany; Freescale, Arizona; Freescale, Texas; University of Toronto, Canada; MosChip Semiconductor, India
Interested in Course Material Only?
If you would prefer to download a PDF copy of the course material for $149 each please follow this link to order one with your credit card. If you are not fully satisfied you may return the material within two weeks for a full refund of the purchase price.

Sincerely,


Jeff Jorvig
Jorvig Consulting, Inc.
phone: 480-442-6730