Successful PLM approaches
Introduction I thought I'd like to put some ideas down to help people be successful in their PLM implementations. I've come up with some suggestions I've seen that have helped me in the past, also some of the unsuccessful implementations where using these approaches would have helped. Voice of the customer - insure buy in Making sure that there is adequate involvement in the process is key to any PLM implementation. There are going to be many changes to the fundamental way people do their jobs in an implementation and keeping everyone on board is key to being successful. Remember that all users of the system are effectively customers and you need their buy in for the ultimate success of the venture. All through implementation I've seen many implementations that start off including people from various departments for example during the definition of scope and requirements. But this is just the beginning. If this is the last contact with end users the project