For people that have worked in industry – what project management softwares have you or your company used to manage product lifecycles? I think this will provide good insight for anyone who hasn’t worked in industry. They can familiarize themselves with some of this software since it can contain a big learning curve.

Personally, I have experience using Agile and Adaptive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-agile-software-development-methodology-in-laymans-term
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_software_development
https://www.quora.com/What-is-adaptive-software-development

Basically these are two similar softwares and methodologies that some companies have that are used to manage the implementation of projects. The softwares are tweaked in accordance to what the company wants and its very useful as this is how Change Orders, Documentation Changes, Routings,and BOMs are changed and tracked. Another useful aspect of these softwares is that it is usually integrated with an ERP system that really automates a lot of back end information and task. For example, pulling data on certain information you need.