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Team Process

The need for a User's Guide as the product of the process was identified during the development of the initial Strategic Design Brief (SDB). Beginning with the SSD#1 project, the User's Guide was updated throughout the MSD project's progress, with the goal of creating a guide which a new team could apply to its needs. In an attempt to create a training atmosphere among such a diverse group, a guide of 33 team norms was developed to ensure the group worked to its peak capacity and capability.

The norms were created to foster a common vision of goals, and developed to ensure that personal and professional standards were adhered to. During the early stages of MSD, the team, in an effort to make the norms more concise and easier to use, consoli- dated the original 33 into 15 new norms.

Processes were developed for three basic types of meetings used to manage an Integrated Product &

Process Development (IPPD) team, and found that the Week In Review Meeting (WIRM) — used to self-manage the team and maintain focus on the overall objectives and goals of the project — was one of the most important management tools. Providing a location for a co-located, cross functional team is not an easy task. During this phase of the project, a growing concern for foreign national corporate espionage resulted in additional restrictions on the foreign national team members in the form of shoul- der to shoulder escort. This created a huge burden on the government personnel due to the added escort responsibility. Other government personnel were added to the cost burden of the project to help escort. It was perceived that Foreign National avail- ability was reduced by 30 percent due to escort requirements with an even larger reduction in the availability of government personnel who were team members. The underlying irony of this was that originally, foreign vendors and shipyards were sought out to participate on this project due to the wealth of information they could bring with them to the project, not take away from it.

Design Process

During the design of MSD, the goals were to veri- fy the repeatability of the processes developed dur- ing SSD#1 to verify its application on a significant- ly different ship and reduction of the cycle time.

The design cycle for SSD#1 required 27 weeks to complete. Part of this time was consumed in devel- oping the design processes, however, significant time was required to prepare for and conduct the design reviews. The design cycle for MSD was 16 weeks. One of the primary areas of cycle time reduction were the design reviews. The process was reviewed in detail with the focus on incorporating an in-process review concept. This was achieved by providing the Steering Committee with a biweekly report of all the activities throughout the MSD design cycle. This significantly reduced the number of unanticipated responses at the design reviews and therefore the amount of rework.

The design process used during the SSD#1 design was verified during the MSD design. Eight arrangement options using hand sketches on CAD- generated background views, that had the main engines and reduction gear located, were developed for the arrangement options process. The arrange- ment selection process revealed several areas where improvements in the arrangement could be realized, this included several changes identified by using the

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