The Big Picture
The following picture identifies many of the key elements found in Product Based Planning. The underlying the picture is the simple Plan, Do, Check, Act principles used for many years in the quality management area.
See Example projects using the Product Based Planning approach
Some of the fundamental principles identified in the picture are:
A plan needs to be prepared to produce or acquire the product.
A plan needs to be in place to identify the activities, resources, processes and procedures, and management required to create or acquire a product. The complexity of the plan depends upon the complexity of the product to be produced.
Every product must have a product description.
Why? If you have tried to build something without a simple and clear specification, the number of iterations and wasted time tends to increase. A simple description of 'What' is needed also allows improved 'make, buy or modify' decisions'.
Every product must be checked against it's product description.
After the product has been created or acquired, the product must have a quality check to verify that the product that is required has been produced.
Change management needs to be applied to both the product description and the product.
Change management is a management decision making process to control changes to products. Changes keep the product description and the produced or acquired product relevant and fit for purpose. This process ensures that all products are in a known state, specific changes can be made and everyone is aware of the changes.
Terminology Notes:
A 'Projects Defined Process' is like a Project Quality Plan.
An 'Organisation's Standard Set of Processes' or 'Management System' contains the descriptions of the processes and procedures, etc that are used in an organisation.
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