TopTeam
"TopTeam really blew us away. From the first time we logged in to the tool, it was clear TopTeam focused heavily on the user experience around managing requirements."
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TopTeam at the heart of your product development
TopTeam lives up to its name in every way. Use TopTeam for:
- Requirements Management
- Traceability of requirements and solutions with their interrelationships
- Integrality through functional, physical, and software-driven product decompositions
- Re-using of requirements and product specifications
- Alignment between requirements and product verification & validation
- Roundtripping between requirements, design information, risks and design controls
The integral approach of TopTeam allows multiple disciplines to work together easily and smartly.
Contact Lidia
E-mail: l.faszczewska@synergio.nl
Phone: +31 6 1939 0368
Top quality specifications
Specifications of your product are drawn up by all sorts of stakeholders and disciplines.
They include not only different types of requirements but also descriptions of your product, use cases, risk analyses, supporting documents, work packages, and test results
In TopTeam you can log all of them in one tool, including mutual relationships.
Benefits
Relevant information
The specification of a product contains all sorts of information elements. To be able to record this information you need powerful tools. In many cases, you also want to be able to include the specific and sometimes unique information from your own organization or project.
For all disciplines
Developing a product or system is teamwork. This means that everyone in your team should be able to add their information as needed, as well as find and reuse information from others.
Quality and consistency
“Rome was not built in one night”. The specifications of your product are also gradually being developed and expanded. With sometimes large teams working together on something, at a certain moment you want to achieve a consistent and high quality whole. You want to get a grip on quality and also measure whether you have achieved the required level at any time.
Everyone informed
We are all working on the same goal: the creation of a fantastic product! Once we are done, more teams are likely to start working to make their contribution to the product. It is therefore important that we can also share the information easily.
Built-in quality
A current theme in product and system development is ‘quality built-in’. This adresses the need to properly set up your processes. You must ensure that the processes are actually carried out as agreed. Customers and external auditors often ask to prove this explicitly.
Who changed what information? Have all deliverables been delivered for a milestone and with the right quality? Have the products been verified or validated?
Benefits
Getting a grip on changes
You want to make changes to your information transparent at exactly the right level and be able to stay in control. Not too strict so that your tools get in your way, but strict enough to withstand the scrutiny of both internal and external auditors.
Complete
Developing a product or system is teamwork. Whether you are complete is linked to the funding ratio, but also to aspects such as the completion of tasks and work packages, outstanding issues, open discussions, the delivery of a verifiable result.
Coverage
Without exception, modern systems are becoming increasingly complex. All components must deliver the right performance to make the whole function properly.
In other words: are all (essential) requirements realized and to what extent? What is required to deliver a Minimum Viable Product?
Everyone agrees
Stakeholder management is essential to ensure that you have found all the important requirements.
With each handover you want to ensure that you stay on the right path. And if needed ask for explicit approval.
TopTeam makes you agile in your product development process
When developing complex systems, you want to be able to flexibly choose which method you are using. In addition, you need to be able to respond quickly to changes and be able to adjust based on the measured results. So not only steer your product development process on result, but also be flexible and customize and optimize your way of working.
Benefits
Different ways of working
When developing complex systems, you can follow different ways of working. Waterfall, agile, depending on the customer or laws and regulations.
In all cases, the tools you use should optimally support the chosen method.
Planning and division of work
Cooperation is essential. To deliver an optimal performance as a team, it is important to plan your work and deliverables well.
You want to be able to manage your work and deliverables in full, together with all parties involved.
Grip on result
Traditionally, the result of your efforts is measured in money, time and quality. Regardless, as a project team, you make a promise and stakeholders want to understand how much of that promise is being delivered. In all cases, you want to have the right tools available to show progress and to be able to make adjustments quickly.
Configure flexibly
Often you also want to further develop your way of working. As with innovation of products, innovation of working methods often entails a lot of uncertainty.
Practice is often more stubborn than theory. The configuration of your supporting tools should therefore be able to flexibly adapt along with your experience and knowledge.
From project to product to platform
High-tech companies that develop complex products transform their product development approach from project to product to platform oriented work.
This also applies to VDL-ETG. Ton Peijnenburg and Jos de Klerk explain the main challenges for these transformations.
They elaborate on how TopTeam helps VDL-ETG to move from a project-oriented to a product-oriented way of product development and how TopTeam also helps them to transform to a platform-oriented way of product development.
Synergio demonstrates some key features of TopTeam that support these transformations.
