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The goal of OSE is to scale parallel development to the order of $150k/month funding level, in order to hire subject matter experts for prototyping of the various devices at a cost of about $15k/prototype, or $45k per product release (3 prototypes) | The goal of OSE is to scale parallel development to the order of $150k/month funding level by year-end 2011, in order to hire subject matter experts for prototyping of the various devices at a cost of about $15k/prototype, or $45k per product release (3 prototypes). Currently, we are running on $7k/month budget levels. | ||
Accesssing $150k/month budget levels would allow us to run 10 project development efforts in parallel. Assuming that this is in place for January, 2012 - then 2012 would allow 40 products to be developed, assuming 3 month development cycles for each product. | Accesssing $150k/month budget levels would allow us to run 10 project development efforts in parallel. Assuming that this is in place for January, 2012 - then 2012 would allow 40 products to be developed, assuming 3 month development cycles for each product. A single Chief Technical Officer could run this operation, with a team of 10 full-time project developers. | ||
The above does not consider the large-scale effort of producing high-quality documentation. See [[Documentation Standards]]. If this effort is done correctly, then we need a budget of another $1M to do this - with the assistance of 10 full time, technical writers/documentors to fill in this task. | The above does not consider the large-scale effort of producing high-quality documentation. See [[Documentation Standards]]. If this effort is done correctly, then we need a budget of another $1M to do this - with the assistance of 10 full time, technical writers/documentors to fill in this task. Thus, the overall budget requirement is on the order of $2M over the next 18 months. | ||
For the parallel development to be funded, we are relying about 50% on bootstrapping production, and 50% on nonprofit sector donations. | |||
We currently have an offer for $160k to attain the scaling above. $60k of this will go directly to living infrastructure, and $100k will go to production scaling/training, where a facility is built to allow the continuous production of 4 pieces of equipment on an ongoing basis, with earnings of $80k per month to make this happen. | |||
[[Category:Strategy]] | [[Category:Strategy]] | ||
[[Category:Organizational Development]] | [[Category:Organizational Development]] | ||
Revision as of 18:41, 1 July 2011
(last updated July 1, 2011)
The goal of OSE is to scale parallel development to the order of $150k/month funding level by year-end 2011, in order to hire subject matter experts for prototyping of the various devices at a cost of about $15k/prototype, or $45k per product release (3 prototypes). Currently, we are running on $7k/month budget levels.
Accesssing $150k/month budget levels would allow us to run 10 project development efforts in parallel. Assuming that this is in place for January, 2012 - then 2012 would allow 40 products to be developed, assuming 3 month development cycles for each product. A single Chief Technical Officer could run this operation, with a team of 10 full-time project developers.
The above does not consider the large-scale effort of producing high-quality documentation. See Documentation Standards. If this effort is done correctly, then we need a budget of another $1M to do this - with the assistance of 10 full time, technical writers/documentors to fill in this task. Thus, the overall budget requirement is on the order of $2M over the next 18 months.
For the parallel development to be funded, we are relying about 50% on bootstrapping production, and 50% on nonprofit sector donations.
We currently have an offer for $160k to attain the scaling above. $60k of this will go directly to living infrastructure, and $100k will go to production scaling/training, where a facility is built to allow the continuous production of 4 pieces of equipment on an ongoing basis, with earnings of $80k per month to make this happen.