Project assessment for systems and electronics product development

Project Assessment Value
A thorough project assessment in the early development stages provides invaluable knowledge of the real scope of a project to make the right decisions on the investment of time and resources. Tactiq's assessment process gives our clients a complete technical and commercial project overview often for a long term platform solution. It lays out how the product development will be structured, identifies risks and mitigations and shows a clear timing path to project delivery.

This assessment forms the vital first phase in the overall project, which is often structured as follows:

Assessment Process and Deliverables
Tactiq conducts these assessments as part of most projects but also offers this as a stand alone service. Project assessments are normally bespoke, however a typical package is shown below.

*Process*	*Details*	Deliverables
Product Requirements	Jointly analyse the product and operational environment to determine the features, key interfaces, performance and functional requirements.	Agreed product requirements document
Architecture Design	Review the design and test specifications, the functional, performance and environmental requirements. Define the top level architecture and interfaces.	Architecture design document covering hardware and software subsystems as well as all interfaces and predicted performance results.
Critical component Choice	Identify the critical components; evaluate a selection of potential parts with rankings against joint client/Tactiq defined criteria.	Critical component list including ranking of options and recommendations.
Design Tools Definition	Assessment of the software architecture, tools and processes to formulate a software development strategy.	Software development strategy document including suggested tools.
Development planning	Assessment of the client's project timing requirements and key deliverables against the technical challenges and risks. A development plan is produced split into key phases with clearly defined inputs and deliverables for each phase.	Detailed MS project development plan and summary deliverables per project phase.
Commercial Analysis	Identifying detailed product cost against targets and providing a complete development costing.	Costed product BOM and development costing.
Project Risk Analysis	Analysis of the technical, costing and timing risks including the probability, preventative actions and mitigation plan.	Risk analysis document

Example Deliverables documents are available on request

Free Initial Assessment Package
Tactiq also offers a free assessment service which covers some of the processes listed above in a reduced form*. Our free service typically covers the following items:

*Process*	*Details*	Deliverables
Overview Requirements	Review of the high level product requirements including key interfaces, performance and functional requirements.	Summary requirements listed and considered in the technical approach.
Architecture Design	Review of the overall design and performance requirements and a proposal for a top level architecture.	Software and hardware architecture proposal.
Critical component Choice	Identify the critical components, evaluate options and recommend parts.	Critical components proposals.
Development planning	Assessment of the development requirements and client's timing to produce a top-level phased development plan and project cost.	High level project plan and development quotation
Project Risk Analysis	Analysis of the main risks including the probability, preventative actions and mitigation plan.	Key risks analysis.

We offer this no obligation, free service as it gives us a chance to demonstrate our skills and approach as well as being of significant value to potential clients. To find out more please email us with a brief description of your project.

* Free service is subject to availability and project scope.

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