Researching and Defining guidelines
While running HUNT ENGINEERING, we worked on several architectures for different product ranges. I had a team of designers/developers working on products that all had to work together, and with a common software/firmware development environment.
As well as the specifications of the products, we needed to all work in the same style and with the same quality. To facilitate that I produced a number of Company guideline documents
- Project development guides and checklists
- Switch Mode Power Supply design and layout guidelines as well as spreadsheets to determine component selections
- How to use specific development tools in our style
- Company PCB stack up and layout guidelines
- What Signal Integrity methods to use for interoperability across the whole product range present and future
- how to design for manufacture for our specific production equipment
- Guides on how to write User Documentation for consistency
Having these guidelines were necessary to
- Prevent duplication of work by several team members
- Prevent similar features being presented to customers in different ways
- Allow new team members to follow the company style without constant mentoring
- Allow different team members to understand the work of others
You might have similar requirements, and I can help to define the guidelines as well as write the policies and documents.
Contact me to discuss your needs free of charge. If my consulting to you can benefit us both then we can proceed from there.