The Continues Improvement for R&D Project Performance–A Case Study on Network Product Development

• Main Author: 楊駿逸
• Other Authors: Su,Tung - Hsin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49013802206090131664

碩士 === 明新科技大學 === 產業研發碩士專班 === 99 === For new product, development duration and timing of release are the keys of a company who can grasp the pulse of market and win victory. This case of target company (here referred to as ‘A Company’) in order to catch up the market trends and dominate the product price, will kick off many projects simultaneously. Since the R&D manpower and resources are limited, the project managers always compete against others for engineering resource to complete their own projects. In this way, the engineers always are overloading in tasks then causes the project schedule seriously delay. Finally, new products lost the good timing of premiere. To release the plight of conflict inside organizations, Dr. Goldratt's Thinking Process is proposed and has been proved to be effective. It also can quickly identify the key source of dedicated problems. To be advanced, the organizations can break through resource limitations to achieve the purpose of sustainable management. The A company is suffered over schedule problem of product development. The worse is no effective solution to release the suffering in hands. It does meet with the plight of what Dr. Goldratt's has described. Therefore, this case study of A company’s product project management will take in Dr. Goldratt's concepts: by Thinking Process. Via deeply interview and discussion, we can identify the Core Conflict is: how many projects are running in the same time? With the help of methodology Current Reality Tree, we can link all Undesirable Effects with this Core Conflict easily. With the help of Future Reality Tree, we can discover the fact: To control the number of live projects rigorously, A company can turn up the Undesirable Effects to a positive Desired Effects. Therefore, through this A company case study, this thesis will propose a full set mechanism of project kick-off, cease, close and finish. This mechanism has deployed on assigned projects of dedicate business unit of A company. After whole year around practical application, the results tell us: adequately reduce and control the number of live projects can promote the utilization of Key Resource dramatically, in the same time, the Project on Time Rate is arisen 68%. For Performance Indicators of Project Duration Drop off Rate is lower 53% at least. With this case study, A company realizes to take good advantage of resource utilization can bring maximum benefit back without extra cost. It did establish up the confidence of Thinking Process and Critical Chain on project management. Keywords: Theory of constraints, Thinking Processes, Project management, Continues Improvement, Current Reality Tree.