Tool to help in planning product with significant NRE for a large (>1000) engineering organization across several geographical sites and supporting multiple business units.

1. PRODUCT PLANNING
VISUALIZING ENGINEERING INVESTMENT DATA

2. WHAT AND WHY?
• Tool to visually represent NRE data for all programs and
products that engineering organization supports
• Engineering organization is complex!
• Spread across multiple Business Units, dozens of Products, several
technology teams and geo locations
• Data-driven methodology to reconcile and optimize NRE spend
based on ROI for each product

3. PROJECT LOADING VS. CAPACITY
NRE per committed Program.
Roadmap (non-committed) at
the top
Line shows engineering capacity
Filter by:
Tech Team/Job
Role
Business Unit
Country
Dev Type
One view to look at engineering resource
distribution across all active projects

4. Engineering Forecast
Slicers to dig into detail about each
Team, Geography, Business Unit and
Program
Consolidated program view of where NRE
spend is allocated per Program based on
lifecycle state
Team Capacity showing maximum work
that can be supported.

5. DATA BEHIND THE VISUALS
Enterprise
Project
Management
tool
Enterprise
Product
database
Composite
Database
Visual
Tool
Sales pipeline
(CRM)
Export
charts

6. PIVOT AND FILTER ANY WHICH WAY
• Executive view for resource allocation across all
Business Units
• Filter by Business Unit for BU GMs
• Filter by Tech Team for technology team managers
• How is my team allocated across all programs and projects
• Filter by Product for Product Managers
• What Tech Team (and how much) are contributing to my
project/program
• Filter by Country for Geo location managers*Group of projects is a program

7. OTHER VIEWS
Resource allocation for a given
Program and how each tech
team contributes to it
Resource breakdown of each
Project comprising a Program