My Outline

[Joe Merritt]

Attached is the outline for my part. Being i'm doing overall result of the project, some of my stuff will coincide with Gus's part. My 3rd part was to be the cross-functional team, but after looking at Gus's he has that too, so what do you guys think? Looking for feedback here.

Joe.

[Wayne Marcy]

Joe,

This is a good start. Things that are on target are lines like this:

Boeing 777 Project

Continually outsold competition from 95-01 - Do we have hard numbers? Can you get this from Boeings earning reports or on Yahoo Finance or something.

• Decision based on market assessment – estimated 100% increase in the

number of passenger miles traveled between 91-05 - Again can we find more evidence to back this up outside of the case study? Also can we claim this was a direct result of the 777 program?

Flexible design; Boeing offered family of planes based around the 777

Catia

• Original idea was to reduce “change, error, and rework” by 50%; attained 60-

90% - This is a strong statement....this is definetly good.

• Helped engineers identify more than 10,000 interferences that would have

arisen during assembly

You may not have to focus on the Project Management aspects of all your pieces. Where we might want to talk through that would be around Cost control but I am not sure we have that evidence. Also based on what everyone else hits in the PM matrix we will try to put your pieces into the context of those. So let's wait on making decisions around that. 

Nandi - Can you put all of our rough peices into one paper for now and call it draft one? Then send that around to the group? This would at least help us get a sense of flow of the paper.

Thanks,

Wayne

Boeing 777 Project

• Cost estimated at $6.3 billion

• Number of employees peaked at nearly 10,000

• First conceived in 1989

• Engines were largest and most powerful ever built (at the time)

• 132,000 uniquely engineered parts

• Boeing enlarged plant to cover area of 76 football fields near Seattle

• Decision based on market assessment – estimated 100% increase in the

number of passenger miles traveled between 91-05

• 30 different companies contracted to help manufacture

• Flexible design; Boeing offered family of planes based around the 777

• Continually outsold competition from 95-01

Digital Design

• 777 was first plane to be designed by computers

• Historically, planes were designed by drawings and models

• Drawings were 2D, couldn’t get a full representation of the complex

construction of a plane.

• Parts “interfered” with other parts; refitting was costly

• CATIA allowed engineers to see the whole plane put together

• 2,200 computers distributed throughout design teams

• Original idea was to reduce “change, error, and rework” by 50%; attained 60-

90%

• Helped engineers identify more than 10,000 interferences that would have

arisen during assembly

[Jefferson Braga]

This is my two cents on the overview. I know we still have some time and I cant seem to find the cross chart you created for us, Wayne. Explaining our individual parts. 

Anyways, its general and i didn't touch anybody else's part...Please let me know where you would like me to expand. 

[Jefferson Braga]

[Jefferson Braga]

Waiting for some feedback ...let me know and I can expand on what ever you guys want. 

Wayne, please send me the cross table describing each other's parts. 

Thanks