Real engagements from the lateralworks team across semiconductor, hardware, and complex-systems programs. Names and sector-identifying details have been removed. New cases added regularly — check back.
advanced display fab and technology development
Core thesis. You cannot accelerate a program you do not see. The first job was making the program visible end-to-end — one integrated plan, one core team, one refresh cycle — and then closing the gap one critical-path week at a time.
The 500K ASIC
Core thesis. When a program demands more than the organization can deliver, the response must be structural. Pick one driving customer, integrate hardware and software workstreams under one empowered core team, and run the planning cadence at a frequency that surfaces gaps before they ossify.
How a chip-development team compressed multi-year program planning from weeks to days, with AI doing 80% of the synthesis and the team scrubbing the rest.
Core thesis. AI-assisted macro planning compresses about 80% of the synthesis work into hours and routes the remaining 20% — judgment, calibration, local context — through the team. On a multi-year stacked-memory program, that split delivered a publishable charter, milestone matrix, and macro schedule in three days against a conventional cycle of three to four weeks.
How Alta Devices recovered an eight-month projected schedule miss and brought the world's most efficient solar cell to manufacturing.
Core thesis. A pilot line on a hard deadline cannot be recovered by the departments running its work streams in parallel — recovery requires one integrated schedule, one weekly cadence, and the full management team in the room. On the Alta Devices program, that combination closed an eight-month projected gap inside an eleven-month planning window.
How an empowered core team and integrated master schedule overcame a two-year projected delay
Core thesis. A two-year deficit doesn't close incrementally. It closes when an empowered core team owns the outcome end-to-end, an integrated master schedule serves as the single source of truth, and refresh planning runs at a cadence frequent enough to expose gaps the same day they appear.
Why functional project managers build functional schedules — and what it takes to move them
Core thesis. A schedule is the visible artifact of an invisible operating model. When a functional organization adopts cross-functional tools, the organization reshapes the tools faster than the tools reshape the organization. Real change comes from moving the team from lightweight coordination to heavyweight ownership; the schedule will follow.
How program structure and portfolio prioritization halved the path to $15M in annual savings
Core thesis. Time-to-savings programs fail when they lack portfolio prioritization, integrated planning, and financial visibility. lateralworks turned a 400-project backlog into a sequenced, measurable execution engine by applying the same program structuring discipline used in time-to-market product delivery, reframed around cost-savings velocity rather than ship dates.
How an empowered product delivery team shipped a first-wave handheld PC in 13 months
Core thesis. When the deadline is existential and the work spans multiple companies, the single most important design decision is organizational, not technical. Stand up a ring-fenced product delivery team with end-to-end ownership, governed above the hierarchy, and let an integrated master schedule do the coordination work that committees do too slowly.
Most case studies we can publish are >10 year old projects. Our current work involves advanced technology at the bleeding edge. We are not able to share these details for obvious reasons.