Roles & Groups

Skills & Education

Skills & Education represent, in addition to the three main areas of Market & Business. Processes & Infrastructure, Technology & Architecture, a fourth orthogonal area in the P4 framework, which deals with the exchange of experience, learning and methods and tools of  special knowledge and experience practices. There can be a separate Community-of-Practice for each of these…

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…

Module Team

Module Teams are responsible for versioned Modules, Components or Platforms. Complex systems are usually divided into System Elements or Modules as sub-units. Platforms are often used, in which the Modules form the basic building blocks for combining and creating System Variants and Applications. Often you will find specific competencies in Module Teams that are only…

Organization Scrum Master (OSM)

The Organization Scrum Master is part of the  Cluster Scrum Master Group  and is responsible for the  infrastructure and processes  at the  organizational level  , ie the entire product development. The Organization Scrum Master forms  the  management of the entire Organization together with the  Portfolio architect  and the  Portfolio Owner . The OSM ensures that…

Organization

The Organization represents the top level in product development, and thus all people, roles and groups. It is also called the Portfolio Level. All of the Organization’s work is shown in the Portfolio Backlog with the greatest possible transparency.   Larger Organizations (over 100-150 people) are divided into different sub-organizations, which are called Cluster in…