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A Successful Development Project: To Succeed You Have to do it Right - From the Start

In addition to a successful development project, subsequent market launch is predicated on rigorous analysis and planning. Enea offers specialist help from market concepts to detailed resource planning.

Requirements and planning often demand as much as a third of the overall schedule. Why? Because if you don't eliminate errors early in the development process, the entire project can turn out significantly more expensive - or even a total failure. In short: to succeed with a development project, you need to be in total control, right from the beginning.

Our engineers have many years of experience in all aspects of project preparation from market planning, to resource allocation, including established processes such as PROPS, Scrum and UML.

  • Enea offers experience in all phases of system and software development. We can tailor a process that efficiently takes you from market concept to finished product
  • Enea can help you with the entire planning, from the big picture to the small details, and always with a regard to the important compromise between functional requirements and time-to-market pressure
  • Enea can establish methods for project management in your organization or, if you prefer, actively manage the project through the entire development cycle

Careful product development planning is essential to project success. The product must solve real problems, and it has to be developed within a reasonable time frame. The main rule is that any error must be identified as early as possible, thereby minimizing the time and the expense needed to eliminate it.

Key to the success of a development project is the creation of a detailed, relevant and unambiguous requirement specification. This is where our engineers excel. They work in close collaboration with you to make sure that the requirements are comprehensive and, not least, that they can be tested and traced at a later stage during the development process.

Gauging the project scope is critical: how much time, personnel, material, etc, will be needed? Most projects also need a compromise analysis regarding the balance between time-to-market and the functional requirements. Sometimes, the best solution is to deliver the product in several steps.

Our engineers have great experience of all aspects of product strategy and planning, including scheduling, resource allocation, staffing, coordination and overall project management.

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- Brown-Wilson Group, Inc., The Black Book of Outsourcing®

Most projects require a trade-off analysis and phased delivery of features to the marketplace.  The Enea team is experienced in all aspects of product strategy and planning, including scheduling, resource allocation, staffing, coordination, and overall project management.

  • Establish clear expectations and reduced project risk through detailed specification and review of product requirements
  • Ensure project feasibility by analyzing key product technologies and industry trends
  • Deterministic, predictable timeline using best-in-class project planning methodologies
  • Achievable product development plan
  • Market Technology Research  
     - Experienced consultants can help research key technologies and industry trends and determine if and how they can be utilized on your development initiative.
  • Requirements Analysis 
    - Enea consultants can help write and refine system requirements often translating market requirements into appropriate software and hardware requirements which will form the basis of your development initiative.
  • Process Definition 
    - Enea has considerable experience in all phases of system and software development efforts. Enea can tailor a development process to move your product from a marketing concept to a field-ready system.  We use established development processes such as PROPS, Scrum, UML, etc.
  • Roadmap Planning
    - Any complex development effort requires tradeoffs between system requirements and time-to-market pressures. Enea can aid in planning and creation of a meaningful, achievable product roadmap.
  • Project Management
    - In today’s economy, development projects are not undertaken lightly. With increased focus on cost and delivery, Enea can assist your organization in setting up a product management methodology, or we can take an active role in managing your project

Enea offers full service solutions for every aspect of the product development lifecycle.  

  • Architecture and Design
  • Certification
  • Implementation
  • Test and Quality Assurance
  • Support and Maintenance

Sweden, Linköping
Per-Anders Jacobsson
+46 13 465 59 00        
per-anders.jacobsson@enea.com

Sweden, Stockholm
Ulf Stom
+46 8 5071 4137        
ulf.stom@enea.com

Enea Linux Competence Center
Ulf Stom
+46 8 5071 4137
ulf.stom@enea.com

Sweden, Öresund
Michel Gantén
 +46 40 631 96 97        
michael.ganten@enea.com

Sweden, Västerås
Kristoffer Zanardi
+46 8 5071 4275
kristoffer.zanardi@enea.com