Web-enabled deliverable-gate program management with scoring method for product development processes

摘要

The Deliverable is a schedule entity, related to program management of new product development that also links a user to the intellectual property being developed in the course of a scheduled product development effort. The Deliverable has a due date, owner, and parent project. The Gate object signifies the end of a major Phase or sub-Phase of the Program and has links to all required Deliverables in a checklist-type display that includes the status of each required Deliverable. In many industries, such as aerospace, scoring is applied as an ongoing metric for Deliverables, which yields an overall score at each Gate to measure improvement in the creation of Deliverables as standard processes are reused.