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Job Roles
Executives (CEO, CFO, CTO, and CIO)
To perform well, you need to rapidly digitize all aspects of your business. Executive leadership teams need accurate systems-engineering data to make key business decisions in dynamic environments in order to introduce new products and drive profitability.
Mastering requirements and test management will enable you to leverage product information to continuously adapt to changing market conditions—and increase revenue and profit. As you maximize your existing investments by picking the best ideas to convert into products (while quickly shedding the losing ones), you empower your business to innovate and simultaneously enable meaningful business-process transformations.
Design and Development Management Professionals (VP Engineering, VP Development, Chief Architect, and Chief Systems Engineer)
You need to enable new product development without business disruptions. One great advantage of an integrated requirements and test-management solution in the cloud is that it can establish a clean and accurate environment for requirements validation and test verification while capturing the key elements of system architecture. This means that technical engineering professionals can help the business derive immediate business value from lean systems-engineering practices that enable faster time to market while minimizing waste and scrap. When your business decides to transition its systems-engineering processes and best practices fully to the cloud, development teams can benefit from the shared schema/solution architecture data. In parallel, the cloud enables you to build any new integrations to run end-to-end processes on one integration layer. Design and development professionals will be able to uptake new functionality for requirements management without the need to upgrade existing software development or ERP systems—meaning no disruption to your business processes or best practices.
Product/Project Managers (PM, Chief Systems Engineer, and Chief Architect)
As a product manager, you need to quickly determine if your new products are commercially viable, and can be delivered within the budget, resource availability and schedules. Mastering requirements management will accelerate product development from ideation to commercialization, simplify the approach to new-product introduction, and increase the probability of successful product launches.
A unified cloud-based solutions platform for requirements, test, and system architecture aligns innovation and commercialization by taking a holistic approach to introduce the right new product or service on time and on budget. Streamlined processes like trade studies, impact analyses, make/buy decisions and critical-path risk management improve the efficiency and effectiveness of new-product introduction.
A requirements management solution in the cloud empowers product managers to collaborate earlier in the product design and commercialization process for maximum creativity, verification, validation, and optimization so that the best and most competitive product or service is released. With visibility into the business process, the best product-development decisions can be made and pivots can be executed quickly when needed.
The diagram below shows the improvements a controlled model can deliver (such as a higher cash flow during each phase of the product lifecycle, or faster release of next-generation products).
The Product Lifecycle Curve
For those organizations that don’t have a dedicated PLM (product lifecycle management) solution, a requirements management solution can be the initial source of new-product data, providing the level of governance, control, and visibility needed to define new products efficiently.
Design Engineers/Team Members
Design engineers and team members must maintain the accuracy of product information to empower mission-critical systems. With potentially hundreds of attributes required to operationalize a product and thousands of places where errors can propagate throughout your system, what’s needed is a requirements or test-management and systems-architecture hub to maintain accurate information and reduce costly scrap from reworking projects.
With the strong foundation of lean systems engineering in the cloud, you can execute your key end-to-end business processes and best practices. With a modern single-solution architecture, you can maintain accurate views of release readiness that drive investment decisions into new products with the right timing for market intervals.
