The phrase “top gun” generally refers to hot-shot fighter pilots performing amazing feats high in the sky, but increasingly it’s being used to describe great engineering managers doing amazing things on land. Numetrics has put together an online seminar covering the best practices of leading IC project planners.

The webinar describes eight techniques used by top-gun engineering managers, followed by a demonstration of Numetrics’ NMX-ERP™ solution and IC Industry Database containing more than 1400 completed IC designs from multiple industry segments.

The webinar presented the following best practices:

1. Computing IC complexity statistically
2. Estimation of resource requirements based on models
3. Rigorous “what-if” analysis for schedule / resource optimization
4. Benchmarking project execution assumptions
5. Determining the most aggressive, yet achievable project plan
6. Quantitatively assessing the schedule / resource implications of each feature request
7. Performing root-cause analysis at the project close milestone
8. Foreseeing resource shortfalls across the project pipeline.

The demonstration showed a live application of the Numetrics toolset, through a realistic scenario involving balancing IC specification and resource availability in the context of a fixed schedule.

You may view the webinar at http://techonline.stream57.com/numetrics/.

For more information, please e-mail info@numetrics.com

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