A Smarter Way to Manage Electronics Development

| Created: August 6, 2026

At a Glance

See how engineering managers keep large teams working together across different fields. This guide covers structured collaboration, repeatable workflows, and clear visibility at every stage, from the first requirement to field support.

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A Smarter Way to Manage Electronics Development

As electronics teams grow, coordination becomes the limiting factor. Electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain teams can no longer stay aligned through quick conversations and email. This whitepaper shows how to move from informal coordination to structured collaboration, so you reduce rework, improve predictability, and keep control as your team scales with Altium Agile Teams.

What's Inside This Paper?

How to move requirements out of spreadsheets and link them to the design
How to work as a team and design from the same source of truth
How to work with external stakeholders
How to run structured design reviews and adjust workflows to keep projects on time
How electrical and mechanical teams work from the same data with ECAD-MCAD codesign
How to handle testing, certification, field returns, and design changes through the whole product life

Key Benefits of Altium Agile Teams

Altium Agile Teams gives engineering managers structure without slowing the team down. It replaces scattered files and email threads with one shared workspace. Requirements, design data, workflows, and change history all stay connected in one place.

See what is happening and stay in control as your team grows, without managing every small task
Find problems between teams early, before the first prototype, and avoid costly PCB re-spins
Keep every team on the same version, with all project data in one up-to-date place
Run design reviews and workflows the same proven way every time, so quality stays consistent
Follow every requirement from the first spec through testing with the Requirements Portal

Why Engineering Managers Choose Altium Agile Teams

"Altium has completely changed the way we design our electronics. We've seen productivity and output increase by 25%." – Scott Gemmell, Engineering Manager, Leica Geosystems

"To be inline with mechanical engineering, we have to optimize our processes and tools. Altium 365 helps us to improve cost, duration and quality." – Timo Guttenkunst, Engineering Manager, Kärcher

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About Author

Olaf Zinke is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Altium, where he focuses on tools and workflows for managing the electronic product development process. He brings more than 30 years of experience across the electronics industry, beginning as an IC design engineer developing mixed-signal automotive chips, then moving into electronic design automation (EDA) as a specialist in analog/mixed-signal verification, where he helped architect Cadence's Virtuoso AMS Designer simulator and contributed to the Verilog-AMS language. Over his career, he has held engineering, product marketing, and technical sales roles at Cadence, Synopsys, ON Semiconductor, and Vishay across North America and Europe. Olaf is the author of The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS (Springer) and holds nine patents. Having worked every stage of product development, from circuit design and verification to marketing and customer engagement, he offers a uniquely holistic perspective on the challenges engineering managers face today.