Computer Vision News - September 2019

Autonomous Landing Managing the Expectations of All Stakeholders 13 at a time when the research is not completed yet. Even though such a requirement might give a direction to the requested results, it might also be expressed too early to be committed to and be too frightening for the R&D team. The fifth character is the finance executive who expects to see the return on investment immediately after the scheduled development. This might be highly unrealistic: first, because of the the many operational steps: compliance, sales force training, marketing the product and getting feedback; second, because only first adopters might be buying the product in the earlier phases. From our experience, it is very efficient to have a weekly meeting with a large set of stakeholders, so that they understand the challenges, the pace of development and the deliverables of the research. They may prove to be precious allies in that they provide very good insights along the way for the cases that you have to cover in your algorithm, for the way to cope with difficult cases and also to decide the priorities along the development cycle. Read the other Lectures