Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Background 3 Teradyne 3 The Semiconductor Industry 3 Teradyne Culture 4 Jaguar Project 4 Situational Analysis 5 Project Retrospective 6 Lack of Experience 6 Poor quality 6 Late action 6 Escalation of Commitment 6 Project Management tools usage 6 What should have been done? 6 Way to move forward 7 Executive Summary Background Teradyne Teradyne is a 45 year old corporation specialized in testing equipment for transistors and other electrical components of the
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Before Teradyne introduced their Jaguar Project in 2001‚ which should become a revolutionizing project management concept‚ the company tried different project scheduling tools such as the TQM or the APP. However there were not any significant improvements in the project planning and execution‚ which the company seniors were looking for. These project management tools required the employees to approach projects in a very regulated way‚ which they thought of as an intrusion to their free working culture
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Case #2: Teradyne Corp: The Jaguar Project questions 1. Compare and contrast Teradyne’s traditional project execution strategy to the approach it used in Jaguar? What was similar? What was different? Teradyne’s traditional project execution strategy lacked structure and discipline. Projects were poorly planned with limited defined scope and goals. This had caused projects to expand and run over budget due to the poorly defined milestones and goals of the project. With the Jaguar project there
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Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar Project Breakdown My mentor once told me‚ “You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow.” This was one of many life lessons that my mentor taught me as I entered my brand new career as being a program manager back in 2003. The concept of this quote never really hit home with me until I sat in my first Program Management Review (PMR). As the defense contractor began to explain why the project was behind schedule and why the EVM
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To illustrate the principles described in the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) Parts 1-6‚ Part 7 is a collection of systems engineering (SE) implementation examples. These examples describe the application of SE practices‚ principles‚ and concepts in real settings. The intent is to provide typical instances of the application of SE so readers can learn from these experiences. This can improve the practice of SE by illustrating to students‚ educators‚ and practitioners the benefits
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The Jaguar project was not as successful as it should have been‚ not because of bad people or bad processes‚ but because top management failed to provide the cultural and institutional training necessary to effectively implement these substantive cultural changes. Unlike the TQM implementation‚ there was no top management directive to make the cultural value changes to require/mandate/motivate people utilize the new Jaguar process management tools and take ownership in the new technologies‚ strategies
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Managing Complex Project Assignment (Fall 2013) *** Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar project *** By SIMONE GUPTA (Submission Date) November 15th 2014 1. Compare and contrast Teradyne’s traditional project execution strategy to the approach it used in Jaguar. What was similar? What was different? In 2001‚ Teradyne made fundamental changes in their strategic direction and technology. In Jaguar project‚ Teradyne Corporation focused more on up-front planning and design‚ reorganization
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The Jaguar project‚ which was a project undertaken by Teradyne Corporation‚ the World’s largest supplier of equipment for testing semiconductors. The aim of the project was to develop a highly flexible tester platform that could be easily adjusted to the needs of different device segments. It was a critical project that will determine the ability and success of Teradyne to compete in the market‚ especially that the market need was drastically shifting towards flexible tester platforms rather than
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Teradyne Case Study 1. The vision that Nick DeWolf had for Teradyne’s value proposition was to provide quality electrical test equipment to fulfill the large need in the market for reliable electronic components in the 1960’s industrial market. DeWolf felt that there was a problem in the market as many users had to build their own equipment to test as there was a lack of competent and capable producers in the semiconductor component testing field. These users and companies must use valuable time
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Ted HIghes The Jaguar by Ted Hughes How does Hughes effectively convey the power of the jaguar? Ted Hughes’ poem ‘The Jaguar’ describes the animals in a zoo and their lifestyles. It also compares them to the jaguar‚ which is an animal that lives very differently to the others because of the way it views its life. Yet how does the poem depict the jaguar as a powerful and free animal? The first stanza of Hughes’ poem the jaguar is: ‘The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. ‘The
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