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by Eric Karofsky, Contributing Editor Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:34:00 PM   They can be difficult, unyielding, and arrogant." ... "They have separate processes and technologies that do not adhere to corporate standards." ... "They [have] a different culture and are often physically separated from the rest of the corporation." "They" are engineers and designers, and the comments are from project managers responsible for large-scale product lifecycle management (PLM) deployments. Preceding these statements was the acknowledgement that, "Ensuring the user acceptance of engineers is my single most important task." In preparation for an upcoming AMR Research Report, "Deploying PLM: The Insider's Experience," we spoke with 10 project managers who were in various stages of deploying PLM across their global corporation. [Click to continue] |