How often are tech trees used in software development/ project management?
I’m leading a hardware development project and I made a tech tree for my team- but I had only ever seen them in video games. Would love some professional examples
I’m leading a hardware development project and I made a tech tree for my team- but I had only ever seen them in video games. Would love some professional examples
My team is designing a new product for our company. We know what we want the end result to be, but we have several iterations to make on our current product to get there, and each iteration can branch through several paths to satisfy our requirements.
So there's a hardware tree which lists the options we have to upgrade the hardware, a software tree that shows the scope of options we have to improve the software, etc.
The idea is to show the different tasks that need to be done; and which can be done concurrently and which need to be done sequentially to get to our goal.
I showed my team the Factorio tech tree to give them an idea, but I didn't realize people used them professionally.
I think you could use a gantt chart to accomplish the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart
And your comment about the dependencies is still accurate for my team since we have to be efficient about doing the concurrent parts together to make sure we get this product to our client on time.
It's been useful for me to visualize all the moving parts of my project and see options that I have in a way that is familiar to me.