Comment by jhallenworld

There should be a hardware product version of this, you software people have no idea.

- Have endless arguments about what to name the product

- Have industrial design team enforce the latest design language

- Create product variant SKU numbers, get them loaded into ordering system. Get buy-in from sales on these variants.

- Create part numbers for the FRUs and CRUs.

- Create multi-level BOM for all the variants.

- Buy replacement parts and push them into parts depots

- Calculate reliability so that warranty department knows how much to charge you

- Get agency approvals

- Create packaging

- Test packaging

- Translate any words on the package into french (for Canada)

- Get vendors to sign your big company environmental requirements document

- Write legal notices and get it translated into many languages

- Work with documentation team to get printed (usually short) manual translated into many languages

- Get safety engineer to sign off on products, usually means you need to make a bunch of stickers and include them in the BoM.

- Figure out the part numbers for the power cords needed for each country

- Figure out the part numbers for the rack mount rail kits for various types of racks that you support

- Write announcement letter

- Create videos and documents for sales team training

- Write troubleshooting guide

- Train repair center

etc..