Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar

Project 

Presented by:
Siddhant Kodre
Tanya Mangla
Utkarsh Kumbhare
 Background
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Agenda Semiconductor Industry
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Teradyne Culture
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Product Development
04
Project Jaguar
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Situational Analysis
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Project Retrospective
07
Conclusion
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 BACKGROUND

Founded in 1960 by two MIT graduates with a By 2004 Teradyne had 5 business units, including
vision to bring a line of reliable, fast testing semiconductor test, assembly test, broadband test,
equipment to the industry connection systems and diagnostic solutions
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Semiconductor test remained the largest business operation for

the company
 SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY

Two main categories:

Memory and system on
chip

Rapid development of
semiconductors required
equally rapid development
of testing machines

High demand for

testing equipment
that could determine
the functionality of
components Customers were
manufacturers like
IBM, Hitachi, Intel and
Teradyne’s products performs testing of
Samsung
components to ensure their behaviour is
within the specified limit

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 TERADYNE CULTURE

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Projects were driven by After 5 years, there were noticeable
performance focusing on technical improvement in manufacturing
competence quality and customer service

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In 1990’s, Teradyne experienced To minimize operating problems
major change in leadership with the D’Aebeloff employed TQM in
new CEO Teradyne
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 Total Quality Management initiative undertaken.

 Started an “Engineering Process Improvement Team” (EPIT) with Ed Rogas as the leader.

 Introduced another initiative dubbed as the “Revolutionizing Product Development”(RPD).

 The company was over committed , to address this Aggregate Project Planning was implemented.

 Individual Projects created a lot of discrepancies, to address this many improvement initiatives were taken up one of them
being the “Phase-Gate” Model.

Product
Development
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In 2001, senior Unlike other Focus on execution

management decided Teradyne projects, strategy with
to create single flexible Jaguar would be increased
tester platform executed flawlessly emphasis on
planning and
design

JAGUAR
PROJECT
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 SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS

Teradyne introduced changes to meet

Alphatech’s requirements but as the deadline
Boston, Augora Hills, San Jose, Minneapolis approached software group was burdened with
and Portland engineering teams responsible for more features delivery
core subsystem

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• Work breakdown
Core team met on weekly basis to discuss structure
progress and make critical decisions • 3- point estimation
• Critical path analysis
• Earned vale analysis
 Project Retrospective

Lack of experience Poor quality Late action Escalation of commitment Project management tools
usage
What Should Have Been Done?

Learning curve should have been estimated properly, as sometimes the software development teams
tend to underestimate the learning curve of the new tools,

Teradyne could have assigned some of the system experts within the Jaguar team,

Teradyne should have recruited more resources from the beginning of the project to the software
development team to avoid burning out its resources and be able to deliver the project on time,

The management should have interfered as early as possible minimize the effect of the early delays,

The metrics should not be the only way to evaluate team's performance, other competences should
be taken into consideration such as teamwork, positivity and being accountable.
Way to move forward
Provide training for key software developers to maintain and enhance
Provide the product

Recruit expert software engineers to lead the software development

Recruit process

Document the current project status, the implementation details and all
Document other activities that still need to be done in terms of bugs, new features
or enhancements.

Unify Unify the project management tools and provide the needed training,

Prioritize the list of bugs to identify the major and critical ones that need
Prioritize to be fixed immediately,

Prioritize the list of features to be completed and identify the ones

Prioritize offering a minimum viable solution
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