Empowering Deterministic Programs

We have deep experience in managing engineering programs. Some examples of where we can help:

TPM:

• We can provide delivery lead functions as needed, working with your functional leads, coordinating multiple workstreams against milestone schedules.
• We manage the client interface, bringing the client along for the ride and facilitating scope changes as needed. The client participates in the journey and should never be taken by surprise.

System validation: (mentioned here since PMs often need to drive validation workstreams)

• Call-out testing priorities and protocols for validation of critical requirements.
• Through all development phases, ensure that engineering deliverables follow documented requirements. 
• For any intentional or incidental change to underlying requirements, lead conversations to socialize changes and ensure broad visibility and buy-in. Actions may include highlighting the need for an ECO or formal modifications to specifications documents.

We partner with your engineering leads, program leads, and client principals to ensure clarity in product requirements, flowing down to detailed specifications.

We can:

• Coordinate requirements generation, driving specifications decomposition to lay the groundwork for well-defined engineering workstreams
• Involve all stakeholders in the process to ensure broad buy-in
• Highlight any gaps in requirements to your leadership teams. These gaps will translate into resource and timeline uncertainties, which are best addressed up-front.

As part of the process, we will review existing materials to ensure sufficient specificity for engineering development and design. Such materials, even when supplied by the client, are not always comprehensive.

Requirements are a living thing, with the expectation of continual refinement through the life of a project. We can help track changes and provide feedback regarding risk, resource, or timeline impacts.

We have decades of experience developing IP, spanning innovations in printing and imaging systems, consumer electronics, HCI, capacitive touch and pressure sensing, color sensing, haptics, trackpad interactions, wireless charging, MEMS sensors, many others.

We assist with:

• ideation sessions
• prior art reviews, tabulations, & analyses
• freedom-to-operate explorations
• IP portfolio strategy
• Coordination with patent counsel to file applications

Prior art reviews can be kept private from your engineering teams, to prevent the appearance of IP contamination.

For patent litigations, we can work with your legal team to evaluate prior art and assess likely infringements, building upon decades of building core enabling technologies backed by IP.