Methods

Scientifically Proven

Based on our years of expertise in high-tech industries, we offer you proven methods for “engineering of new opportunities”.

Our methodical approach for your entrepreneurial success: Results based on solid methods.

Systems Engineering

To solve management challenges a holistic view is a prerequisite to distinguish between root cause and interfering effects. Due to our sound interdisciplinary background we combine appropriate scientific-technical with human-centered disciplines and apply Systems Engineering to deliver solutions to complex problems in enterprises.

Systems Engineering ensures that all aspects are considered and integrated into a whole: finding the right solutions and managing complexity.

Projects and tasks need reliable specifications, i.e. demands of management, technical and legal issues, functional & non-funtional requirements. Since many years we apply a systematic approach to requirements engineering in order to formulate valid requirements.

This comprises elicitation, formulating, documenting and maintaining of valid requirements. Because checking of requirements and resolving stakeholder conflicts is a crucial activity we trust in verification of all gathered requirements. Together with our clients we evaluate and validate them before taking any actions.

On the basis of verified requirements we deliver also metrics how to accept them in terms of legal and commercial aspects. This systematic approach implies immediate verifiability of all requirements aimed at resilient, i.e. complete and high-quality specifications without any contradictions.

Requirements Engineering

Change Request Management

Since the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus it is known, that change is being central to the universe: “the only constant is change” perfectly reflects therefore the dynamics of modern business environments.

Change-Requests (CR) may be named different, but describe essentially the urgent need to deliver an adjustment. A CR is mostly declarative, therefore it states WHAT needs to be accomplished, but leaves out HOW the change should be carried out.

Considering business demands from senior management, but also including new requirements from clients, features and functions, operational constraints (production), regulatory demands (legal) and technical enhancements we face constantly changing specifications. It is always crucial to an project organization to deliver changes “in time, in quality and given budget”.

Due to our sophisticated and clearly defined CR management process we face challenges during project work and main goals are to support impact, cost, technical feasibility, traceability and verification of change-requests.

We undertake a technical due diligence (TDD) process to ensure technical risks are known and managed in order to identify and assess business risks.

The due diligence process can be divided into several areas according to client´s needs, e.g. audits of production, processes, systems, organization, management, as well as technical and intangible assets (i.e. intellectual property, know-how, best practice).

We have automated the technical due diligence in order to identify relevant information, data models and processes in advance and to use them as a basis for technical solutions and the digital transformation of processes.

We apply TDD with the goal to assess e.g. technical state of systems, production plants, equipments technical condition or status of projects and product lines. Doing so we are able to deliver the financial impacts of technical assets on business value.

Technical Due Diligence

Portfolio Management

Portfolio management is an important instrument applied to products, services, applications and projects in order to improve the enterprise value.

For this a SWOT-analysis is a prerequisite, i.e. to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each portfolio element.

We analyze and manage chosen portfolio elements based on numerous key characteristics to optimize the portfolio by maximizing the delivered business value.

We apply program management on a strategic management level including a set of metrics to indicate progress of the program. By this we deliver long term improvements to enterprise performance.

We help decision-takers to define, coordinate, control and run the RIGHT projects, to achieve their strategic business goals. Therefore we utilize a suitable program management approach derived from business demands.

Due to our advanced experience and skills we also verify and validate (V&V) the program: i.e. doing the right projects & doing the projects right.

Program Management

Project Management

We utilize a systematic approach for project management which reduces risks of planning and executing of all work packages and their derivables.

This is achieved by rigorously checking all planning information and complete visualization of the results, dependencies and possible impacts.

This systematic approach implies immediate verifiability and helpful guidance of the project team members. Management reporting is therefore based on clear facts and steering board is able to decide data-driven.

We apply verification & validation (V&V) as independent procedures to check whether products or services, processes and roles, or even systems meet the requirements of clients and furthermore that they fulfill their intended purposes.

We achieve this by systematical use of an automated V&V process to identify relevant information in advance and use it as a basis for technical solutions.

Our software-supported approach uses fully automated metrics-based methods for verification & validation (V&V) based on meta-models along the operational value chains and makes the results available in a transparent and validated repository.

Verification & Validation

Efficient METHODS
applied interdisciplinarily

With our systematic approach, we are committed to fulfilling the needs of our clients to not only increase quality, efficiency and productivity, but also to measure them

… we deliver RESULTS.

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What others say about us

Dr.rer.nat. Franz Lärmer

Robert Bosch GmbH

„Herr Dr. Fabula unterstützte uns bei der anwendungsspezifischen Optimierung von MEMS-Sensoren und konnte hierbei wertvolle Hilfestellungen leisten. Ich schätze Herrn Dr. Fabula als kompetenten Ansprechpartner, dessen Initiative, Tatkraft und Ideenreichtum im Laufe unserer langjährigen Zusammenarbeit immer wieder herausragte.“

Thomas Benkenstein

Daimler AG, Stuttgart

“Dr. Thomas Fabula established successfully a sustainable QA system for our software development program. Due to his methodical competence combined with his strong commitment we were able to succeed with fast project results in the after-sales line organization."

Dr.rer.nat. Dieter Goddon

T-Systems International GmbH

„Ich lernte den Mitarbeiter der TF Consulting als äußerst motivierten und kompetenten Berater kennen, der durch seine fordernde und engagierte Arbeit überzeugen konnte. Seine analytische Denkweise und strukturierte Vorgehensweise garantierte eine gründliche Bearbeitung der ihm gestellten Aufgaben."

Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Keller

Transcat PLM GmbH

“I worked closely together with Dr. Fabula to ramp up consulting know how within the domain Requirement- Project- and Program Management. Our working relation was every time very professional and Mr. Fabula brought in a lot of own valuable ideas."

Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Stephanus Büttgenbach

TU Braunschweig

"I found Thomas to have a careful, systematic and determined way of working, a particularly high degree of initiative and independence combined with a very good grasp and the ability to quickly recognize interdisciplinary contexts. His above-average creativity and ability to work under pressure led to the extraordinarily successful completion of the projects he worked on."

Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Süße

Krupp Fördertechnik GmbH

“Dr. Thomas Fabula carried out calculation services as part of a joint development contract and instructed our development engineers in the simulation system including the models he had developed. The cooperation with Dr. Fabula was very pleasant and highly efficient."

Hubert Nöll

VEGA Grieshaber KG, Schiltach

„Im Entwicklungsprojekt hat Herr Fabula auftragsgemäß für unser Haus die numerische Auslegung und Optimierung von Meßwandlern bearbeitet. Das erarbeitete Resultat beeindruckte uns in mehrfacher Hinsicht. Man spürt, daß hier nicht alleine sorgfältig und methodisch gearbeitet, sondern Engagement und persönliche Kreativität eingebracht wurden. Mit den Ergebnissen fühlen wir uns bestens bedient."

Dr.-Ing. Klaus Peter Selig

Bizerba GmbH & Co. KG, Balingen

„Schon zu Beginn des Entwicklungsprojektes zeigte sich die Fähigkeit von Herrn Dr. Thomas Fabula, sich auf die wesentlichen Punkte der von ihm zu bearbeitenden Aufgaben zu konzentrieren und in kurzer Zeit sehr gute Ergebnisse zu erzielen. Besonders erwähnenswert ist die Fähigkeit von Herrn Dr. Fabula über den wiss. Aspekt hinaus auch die mit der technischen Anwendung zusammenhängenden Probleme einzuschätzen und in seine Arbeit einzubringen.

Michael Hartmann

Deutsche Telekom AG, Zentrale Bonn

“Herr Dr. Thomas Fabula leitete die Gruppe TDN-Management, Produktintegration, Prozesse kommissarisch und war für die Konzeptionierung und Implementierung einer Vorgehensweise für die Integration von Produkten in Telekom Designed Network (TDN) verantwortlich. In seinen Arbeitsergebnissen zeigen sich sein hohes fachliches Know-how und seine beruflichen Erfahrungen im Umfeld des Produkt- und Projektmanagements."

Farkas Ferenc

MATÁV Rt., Budapest / Hungary

"With reference to the cooperation between Global One and MATÁV we were pleased to discuss with Dr. Thomas Fabula IT strategy relevant topics and a closer collaboration between the IT organisations of the two companies. We have benefited from the detailed discussions with him and his experience with SAP R/3 in telecommunications corporate environment."