Integrated Product Teams or Integrated Product Development

// IPT / IPD Example

An example of IPD is the Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) Core System Program (ECS).

PRODUCT Focus

INTEGRATE Customer

INTEGRATE Development team

ECS Approach

ECS Approach

ECS Approach

• ECS decomposed into 5 releases, flight ops, science data processing, and infrastructure
• 3 product teams in place for the first three releases
• 1 team for multi-relational support (environment, COTS, processes & procedures)

• ECS development team, GSFC, science community at various Universities
• Place project liaisons at user locations
• Electronic Data Handling System (EDHS) to make project data available electronically (WWW)
• Joint Application Development (JAD)
• Telephone & video conferencing
• Customer representaed on risk management panel & SEPG

• Companies include Hughes, Loral, EDS, ARC, NYMA, EOSL.
• Work in one facility, use a common set of processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Encourage single team mindset (all hands meetings, social events).

Advantages

Advantages

Advantages

INTEGRATE CUSTOMER ADVANTAGES

• Facilitate early identification of potential problems and offer solutions
• No surprises
• Reduce customer review time
• Reduce customer problem/discrepancy reports
• Customer/user shares in risk mgmt
• Customer/user participates in training (learns OO, inspection process, etc. for better review)

INTEGRATE DEVELOPMENT TEAM ADVANTAGES

• Enhances total system maintainability
• Each team member offers different areas of expertise; use them where most effective

• Avoid traditional multi-level responsibility(sub to prime, prime to acquisition organization)

product FOCUS ADVANTAGES

• Break the system into pieces, defer ambiguous requirements to later releases
• IPT focus on deliverable product
• More frequent, less formal reviews
• All eng disciplines participate in all development phases