Jaguar Project Case Study

Introduction

The case illustrates the Project management approach and techniques used by Teradyne corporation is a semiconductor testing company offering testing services to its customer in the engineering and electronics industry. This engineering based company was founded by two MIT classmates and initially focused on making the equipment to test transistors and other electronic components.

Teradyne is company with a with strong engineering culture, its senior management are mostly people with strong engineering background and established a culture of continuously improving process and project management. This TQM culture also further fueled “individual initiative” or self management into process and projects.

The company was doing

However, the development of such measures and process will be challenging and hence requires a detailed change in culture, management and the scope of the projects.

Jaguar Project

The project Jaguar aims to create a flexible testes platform that could be easily adaptable to the needs of different device segments. This new new product line that would generate the revenues for the company for the next decade. The strategy for the project was to focus early-on on the project approaches and the effective utilization of the project tools to meet the client’s deadlines with full maintenance of the value proposition.

Since the company aimed to develop a unified platform to test multi-product, it required the management to develop a flexible platform strategy supported by strong usage of the project tools to streamline the product development activities.

It was evident in the past, the company started missing the deadlines and had poor practice towards measurement of the progress and performance and development of the project milestones. One of the objectives of this project was also to develop and establish new strategies and project management approaches to improvise the product development process, utilised previously in the

In addition, employees have been charged to select and take the project lead themselves with no supervision, and anchoring the culture of empowerment and accountability. Such culture developed the leading skills among the individuals with the pro-active approach to lead the projects. In addition to this, the Teradyne has the individualistic culture in which each individual could select and take the whole direction of the project.

In addition, it also leads to the development of over committed projects that not only allocate the additional resources to one projects but also ignored the importance of the other important projects. Also, it created a resource deficient in the organization since the overly allocated projects remain the priority of the individuals.

Lastly, such culture also leads to the individual developing their own goals and tasks that misaligned with the overall organizational strategy and which failed to develop a proper work system, ensuring the involvement of the senior executive at the right time and also the depiction of the project progress on a wider lens to the management, leading to the development of more centralized and individualistic approach in the