In order to respect customer’s requirements and needs , we follow a “stage & gate” model both to realize our product and to develop customer’s project.

The following flow represents our standard operational road map for moving product from idea (design) to realization.
The effort is divided into distinct stages separeted by management decision gates.
Cross functional teams complete activities in each stage in order to obtaining management approval (internal or external one) and to proceed to the next stage of project development.

The most classic Stage & gate approach is used by GA to define the macro project phases. The gates in this case are decisional moments in which the team understands if necessary to proceed according to the initial ideas or if to change course and identify more efficient alternative solutions.

The type of activity and above all the dynamic context in which GA operates in recent years has pushed the organization to adopt the guidelines of the AGILE mode that are used within each of the individual phases / sprints described as follows.

In the Study phase, for example, the identification of the needs of operators, as future users of automated stations, is managed by defining USER STORIES in order to build their experience as operators and build the machine according to these needs (the set of identified requirements define the so-called PRODUCT BACKLOG). The work team is inter-functional, each member of the team has full visibility of the plan and of their activities / tasks that are shared with continuous interaction between technicians during all the sprint meetings (Daily Sprint / Sprint Review / Sprint Retrospective).