| Description: | Assembly of required program personnel and first meeting of the initial team. |
| Deliverables: | Program team in place |
| Risk: | You will not have a suitable team in place to complete the required product development activities. |
| Description: | Presenting the initial scope of work to the initial program team and defining roles and responsibilities amongst the team. Review of overall project aims and full plan. |
| Deliverables: | Draft program plan |
| Risk: | You will not have a clear plan on how to complete the required activities. |
| Description: | Identify suitable existing vehicle or define build variant as candidate for initial BoM/ part list foundation. |
| Deliverables: | Cost target with initial {BoM} cost and margin, using similar surrogate vehicle, identifying adds and deletes |
| Risk: | You will not have identified an existing vehicle to use as the basis for developing an initial BoM or part list. |
| Description: | Utilise existing model or suitable build variant to prepare initial draft BoM/ part list. |
| Deliverables: | Cost estimates from each function area with plan to achieve {BoM} cost target |
| Risk: | You will not use a donor BoM as the basis for generating an initial BoM and will need to use engineering experience. |
| Description: | Engineering review surrogate BoM/ part list and add or delete items to align with vehicle design strategy. |
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| Risk: | You will not have incorporated the input from Engineering in refining the initial BoM. |
| Description: | Refine and publish initial BoM/ part list for program based on feedback from Engineering. |
| Deliverables: | List of systems provided by engineering |
| Risk: | You will not use engineering experience to generate an initial BoM from scratch and will have identified an alternative method for doing so. |
| Description: | Engineering review surrogate BoM/ part list and add or delete items to align with vehicle design strategy. |
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| Risk: | You will not have incorporated the input from Engineering in refining the initial BoM. |
| Description: | Evaluate results of benchmarking activity in context of vehicle features and targets. |
| Deliverables: | Matured estimate of investment (including plant, facilities) based on cost estimates |
| Risk: | You will make a decision for vehicles and markets without sufficiently reviewing benchmarking and marketing results. |
| Description: | Combine investment estimates and delivery expenditure with sales figures and pricing strategy to generate initial Profit & Loss Report. |
| Deliverables: | Cost estimates from each function area with plan to achieve {BoM} cost target |
| Risk: | You will not have sufficient information about the profitability of your vehicle. |
| Description: | Generate first draft of budget to determine initial magnitude of investment required for program. |
| Deliverables: | Final proposal for viable investment and profitability targets with confirmed key investments |
| Risk: | You will not be aware of the initial investment you need to make to develop and manufacture your vehicle. |
| Description: | Review of business case by senior management resulting in approval to proceed. |
| Deliverables: | Approval of business case, approval of volumes, vehicle specification and variants |
| Risk: | You will not dedicate time to evaluating the business case with Program and senior management to support Concept Approval. |
| Description: | Compile and analyse data to develop and publish business case. |
| Deliverables: | |
| Risk: | You will not formally confirm that the program plan and approach meets the demands of the business to proceed with vehicle development. |
| Description: | Initial BoM fully drafted including program targets ready for engineering concept work to begin. |
| Deliverables: | |
| Risk: | You will not issue an initial BoM to enable program cost and complexity to be evaluated as part of the business case proposal. |
| Description: | Identification of target markets applicable to this program. |
| Deliverables: | Identified desired markets with proposed key figures (volumes, dates etc.) |
| Risk: | You will not have sufficient information regarding potentials or uncertainties in your targeted markets. |
| Description: | Identification of existing competitors within target market(s). |
| Deliverables: | Set of vehicles identified for benchmarking in line with target market and segment |
| Risk: | You will not have sufficient information regarding the competition for your vehicle in the target markets. |
| Description: | Initial determination of appropriate sales price range based on market, competition and product features. |
| Deliverables: | Brand positioning including brand/product benefit, target customer, price position & position within portfolio |
| Risk: | You will not have a complete overview of the price range of your target segment you would like to position your vehicle in. |
| Description: | Finalise and concur price range for vehicle(s) to use as basis for cost targets and program budgeting. |
| Deliverables: | Confirm market participation and price point to determine business case |
| Risk: | You will not have made a price decision to place your vehicle in your target segments. |
| Description: | Identification of imperative and desired features of vehicle(s) to meet program vision. |
| Deliverables: | Confirmation of segment specification for planning and investment |
| Risk: | You will not have specified the demanded features for your vehicle which influences work on downstream swimlanes such as engineering or manufacturing or after sales. |
| Description: | Initial 2D styling concept sketches. |
| Deliverables: | Idea creation ({2D} sketches) for exterior and interior |
| Risk: | You will not have a sufficient first idea to support your 2D drawings and 3D models which may lead to issues in the clay and styling process. |
| Description: | First proposal of 3D proportional studies. |
| Deliverables: | {3D} proportional studies (define boundaries as height & stand.) |
| Risk: | You will not have a sufficient first idea to support your 2D drawings and 3D models which may lead to issues in the clay and styling process. |
| Description: | The initial creation of the exterior A-surface. |
| Deliverables: | Exterior Hard points brochure/guidelines for design a-surface |
| Risk: | You will not have your A-Surfaces available which might cause delays in the styling process. |
| Description: | The initial creation of the interior A-surface. |
| Deliverables: | |
| Risk: | You will not have your A-Surfaces available which might cause delays in the styling process. |
| Description: | Proportional studies conducted to define initial exterior relative dimensions. |
| Deliverables: | Exterior Hard points brochure/guidelines for design a-surface |
| Risk: | You will not have the exterior proportions properly defined to share with stakeholders. |
| Description: | Proportional studies conducted to define initial interior relative dimensions. |
| Deliverables: | Interior Hard points brochure/guidelines for design |
| Risk: | You will not have the interior proportions properly defined to share with stakeholders. |
| Description: | Initial proposals of the vehicle key design features drafted. |
| Deliverables: | Initial Key Design Features |
| Risk: | You will not have the key design features drafted causing the rest of the styling tasks to slip. |
| Description: | Review to discuss the key design features developed and decide on a design direction. |
| Deliverables: | Design Direction (Images defining bookends) |
| Risk: | You will not have design features agreed upon by stakeholders and no clear design direction. |
| Description: | Creation of the craftsmanship section book with initial targets defined. |
| Deliverables: | Craftsmanship section book generated ready for ongoing updates |
| Risk: | You will not have a developed craftsmanship book in preparation for implementation. |
| Description: | Functional engineering groups develop and mature the concept design for the platform. |
| Deliverables: | {PF} concept {CAD} frozen with all joints, fixing strategy and material information |
| Risk: | You will not have a mature platform concept design you risk having immature data to progress with top hat surrogate and bridging part design. |
| Description: | Review of the platform concept design. |
| Deliverables: | {Platform} concepts reviewed for feasibility, compatibility and robustness |
| Risk: | You will not have agreement from key stakeholders if you do not review your platform design. |
| Description: | Verification design review with all key stakeholders of the platform concept. |
| Deliverables: | Concept confirmed as design-intent |
| Risk: | You will not have agreement from engineering function groups and key stakeholders if you do not review your platform concept design prior to PFV0. |
| Description: | Development of necessary top hat and bridging parts required to complete the concept platform design development. |
| Deliverables: | Surrogate {top hat} and bridging parts complete |
| Risk: | You will have issues if you do not develop the surrogate top hat and bridging part design with the platform concept design you risk delaying top hat design. |
| Description: | Concept CAD data shared with all stakeholders. |
| Deliverables: | {PF} concept complete and released to all stakeholders |
| Risk: | You will have issues regarding your design requirements if you do not take your time for maturity and optimization of your concepts during PF Concept. |
| Description: | Further evaluation of legal requirements that need to be met in order to engineer a vehicle within the technical regulations. Review status and scope of legislation in line with the increased definition of the designs. |
| Deliverables: | Report of status and scope of legislation in line with the increased definition of the designs |
| Risk: | You will not be aware of the homologation testing requirements you need to go through for each market you want to place your vehicle in. |
| Description: | Checks of the list of feature requirements that should define the vehicle. Identify if all requirements can be engineered, if not prioritize features. |
| Deliverables: | Report of status of concept activities to ensure that legislative requirements have been clearly interpreted |
| Risk: | You will not be aware of the homologation testing requirements you need to go through for each market you want to place your vehicle in. |
| Description: | Check of feature requirements against regions and markets to define regional deviations for engineering. |
| Deliverables: | |
| Risk: | You will not be aware of the homologation testing requirements you need to go through for each market you want to place your vehicle in. |
| Description: | Define testing parameters for commodities in vehicle. |
| Deliverables: | Homologation testing requirements |
| Risk: | You will not be aware of the homologation testing requirements you need to go through for each market you want to place your vehicle in. |
| Description: | All legislation requirements for the key markets are identified. Those requirements are in line with the revision of the requirements against markets and territories. Review status and scope of legislation in line with concepts. |
| Deliverables: | Review status and scope of legislation in line with concepts |
| Risk: | You will not be aware of the homologation testing requirements you need to go through for each market you want to place your vehicle in. |
