Groups

Users, Customers and Sales

These are the primary Stakeholders in product development at all levels (Organization , Cluster and Team ). At the Team level, the Application Teams in particular have close contact with Users, Customers and sales, as they give and evaluate the ultimate requirements for the products, systems and applications. Stakeholders are invited to the Review meetings…

Cluster Product Owner Group (CPOG)

The Cluster Product Owner Group consists of the Cluster Product Owners of all Clusters in the Organization, plus the Portfolio Owner. It has the overall responsibility for market and business side of the product development process on the Portfolio at the organizational level. The Cluster Product Owner Group including the Portfolio Owner has the following…

Cluster Scrum Master Group (CSMG)

The Cluster Scrum Master Group, consists of the Cluster Scrum Masters of the Clusters and the Organization Scrum Master (OSM) The group is responsible for the processes, infrastructure and the cultural side of the product development process at the organizational level . The CSMG maintains the Organization Improvement Backlog to plan and implement improvement projects .…

Cluster System Engineer Group (CSEG)

The Cluster System Engineer Group (CSEG) consists of the Cluster System Engineers of all Clusters in the Organization . At the organizational level, it corresponds to the role of the Working Team at the team level. Together with the Portfolio Architect , the Cluster System Engineer Group is responsible for the Technology and Architecture side…

Communities of Practice

Communities-of-Practice (CoP) are groups that deal with specific knowledge and experience topics. All employees have the opportunity to work in the self-organized CoPs within their “practice time” or training period. The P4 framework provides about 10% of the working time for this.   The Communities of Practices are about: Exchange of experience Training and personal…

Supplier, Supply Chain & Production

Suppliers are important external Stakeholders of product development at all levels (Organization , Cluster and Team ) and supply chain and production are important internal Stakeholders. At the Team level, the Module Teams in particular, have close contact with suppliers because they provide important boundary conditions for the technology. Stakeholders are invited to the review…

Management Circle of the Organization

The product development Organization is managed by a group of managers. The Portfolio Owner, the Portfolio Architect and the Organization Scrum Master form the Organization Management Circle (OMC). They support and complement each other in the decision-making of topics that reach their level or have been escalated to them by one of the three groups…

Cluster Management Circle

A Cluster within the product development Organization is managed by a group of managers. The Cluster Product Owner, the Cluster System Engineer and the Cluster Scrum Master form the Cluster Management Circle following the principal of separating powers. They support and complement each other in the decision-making of topics that reach their level or have been…

Manager of other Areas and the P4N

The managers of areas that are not included in the P4 Dev Framework are assigned to the group of Stakeholders . The managers of other areas come from infrastructure areas such as IT, HR, accounting and facility / site management. The Stakeholders of the Supplier, Supply chain and Production area are described here , the…

Modelling the organization

With organizational modeling, the specific organization is modeled by P4 elements, i.e. the teams, groups and Clusters are represented by their information and work flows. The processes can now be represented within the organizational model, whereby this is done by defining and documenting the corresponding inputs, responsibilities, actions and outputs. Every  organizational unit is described…