Flexible Project Management for Product Development
Traditional project management approaches are not sufficient for product development due to the complexity of getting a new product to market. Technology changes, personnel turnover, changing customer requirements, multi-site development, and unclear schedules are but a few of the variables that render conventional project management deficient.
Flexible Project Management for Product Development is a downloadable and interactive guide to allow you and your team to manage your development project even in the turmoil created by global competition. The Guide was developed by product development veterans, and it includes a vast collection of process maps, tools, interactive templates with many examples and step-by-step instructions.
In addition, the Guide includes several tools specific to product development, for example, “The Bounding Box” enables cycle time reduction by allowing the team to make better decisions. The Complexity Diamond characterizes each development program based on its complexity, thus allowing the team to prepare the right resources to deal with chaos before it starts.
Unique Benefits
It’s a step-by-step “how-to guide. The authors realize that in the real world, you need more guidance and enough detail to enable you to apply the Guide to your specific development project. We start by helping you organize your development project to ensure that you build a robust environment to deal with chaos. We include team building and advanced communication skills to enable you to lead the development team — the more chaos, the more you need to rely on your leaderships skills.
The focus of the Guide is on delivering your new product to market to achieve your business objective. We realize that the purpose of the new product is to improve the profitability of your company. We enable you to focus on the strategy of your new product and focus on delivering measurable results in the midst of confusion.
It’s been field-tested by the authors and by many companies similar to yours. This is not a theoretical Guide that assumes “best-case-scenario”, which rarely happens in the world of product development. Rather, it equips you to deal with the ever-changing environment of product development particularly when you face a multi-site development project.
Fourth, because it's an enhanced PDF file, the e-Guide takes full advantage of hyperlinks, "fillable" forms, interactive templates, and more. You are no longer tied to the old paper model. Plus you can share the forms, templates and processes with your colleagues around the world.
