The current business competition is more and more fierce, enterprises need to develop faster and more stable product delivery ability to meet the challenges of the market. In the process of R&D project management, large R&D teams are also facing many challenges. Project delays, project cost overruns, project management tools that don’t cover business needs, and poor software quality are all preventing companies from delivering products better and faster. Underlying these challenges are common pain points in project management for large r&d teams:

  • Requirements change frequently and business value is not high
  • Team members do not understand the goal and significance of the work, and work morale is low
  • No quantitative data, no continuous improvement through PDCA
  • Tools are scattered, forming information islands, further increasing the difficulty of quantification

The R&D team worked overtime, but the overall progress and quality of the project still failed to meet the business objectives. As the technical leader of the team, I must always pay attention to “how is the team working now?” “How to improve?” “How effective are the improvements?” In the face of the above pain points, FENG Bin, CTO of ONES also shared management strategies with everyone.

The challenges of project management for large R&D teams

1. Focus on business value and strategic direction

Managers should first define one or two strategic directions that are large enough and competitive enough, and then invest resources to encourage and guide the team as a whole toward the established strategic direction.

2. Online and digital team work

ONES R & D management tools can scientifically and efficiently integrate workflow, share progress, statistical analysis, precipitation and backtracking, help managers control project progress from a global perspective, and find and deal with risks in advance, to ensure project delivery on time and with high quality. In project review, ONES contributes to team process improvement by providing integrated project process information, quantifying and analyzing team r&d performance.

ONES Project Project management and task synergy

ONES Performance measures team r&d effectiveness

3. Open up the data of the whole process of R&D and eliminate information islands

Data access is a necessary capability of project management tools, which makes the barrier of cooperation between product, R&D, testing, operation and maintenance broken, forming a closed loop of the whole process of R&D management. ONES provides flexible product configuration capabilities and rich enough apis to realize the communication between R&D data and engineering data, eliminating information silos and improving team collaboration efficiency.

ONES product matrix, data communication between products

4. Be open and transparent, understand, acknowledge and align your goals

Goals are the most direct motivation for action. This requires managers not only to recruit people with the same values and recognition of team goals in team building, but also to lead the team to focus on goals and ensure target alignment and agile execution in repeated communication and collaboration with the team.

The ONES Gantt chart tracks project progress from a global perspective

Project management is the epitome of enterprise management. ONES provides professional R & D management solutions for enterprises, covering the whole r & D life cycle, creating a good collaborative environment for managers, products, R & D, testing, operation and maintenance and other team roles, improving team work efficiency and ensuring sustainable and stable product delivery.

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