Best Practices
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| Whatever happened to best practices? |
April 2007 |
Cost of Delay
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| Are there situations where cost-of-delay calculations don’t apply? |
January 1999 |
| Calculating the cost of delay |
December 1998 |
Fuzzy Front End
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| Why is listening to the customer so difficult? |
July 2008 |
| What do you mean by market shifts when you speak of flexibility? |
January 2008 |
| How can I develop products more flexibly by working with customers? |
March 2006 |
| How can we come up with more/better new-product ideas? |
April 2004 |
| Should we depend on Sales to keep our customers happy? |
January 2005 |
| How can we accelerate decision making, particularly in the fuzzy front end? |
March 2003 |
| How can we keep from being blindsided when world priorities shift? |
October 2001 |
| How can I capture the voice of the customer? |
March 2001 |
| How do I hear the voice of the customer as I develop a new product? |
October 2000 |
| Should engineers be spending their precious time visiting customers? |
December 1999 |
Management Issues
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| Contemporary Management Methods Encourage Rigidity |
Article |
Metrics
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| How can I tell if we did well at developing our last product? |
October 2003 |
Organizational Change
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| Is the CEO important to flexible product development? |
July 2007 |
Planning
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| How can I make our plans to improve product development “stick?” |
January 2001 |
| How can we avoid “technology push” without avoiding technology? |
July 2000 |
| What should my boss do to speed up product development? |
January 2000 |
| How much does it cost to speed up product development? |
September 1999 |
| Can we accelerate product development using a “Faster, Better, Cheaper” program? |
August 1999 |
Product Development Process
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| What is the most important factor in improving product development? |
October 2008 |
| What are the keys to installing a new product development process? |
June 2005 |
| Why do we have so much fire fighting, even when we manage our development process methodically? |
January 2002 |
| Should we be using a stages-and-gates product development process? |
September 2001 |
| Doesn’t rapid product development mean that quality will suffer? |
September 2000 |
| How do I find truly valuable development process improvements? |
June 1999 |
| Cycle Time Compression Can Be Inappropriate |
Article |
| New Product Development and Fast Cycle Time |
Article |
| Stage Gate* Process Versus Time to Market |
Article |
| Time to Market Improvement in Product Development |
Article |
Flexible Product Development
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| Isn’t the iteration that accompanies flexible product development wasteful? |
June 2008 |
| Is there a development process for flexible product development? |
April 2008 |
| Does flexible product development complement or contradict lean product development? |
December 2007 |
| Does flexible product development complement or contradict phased development processes? |
October 2007 |
| What is the connection between flexible product development and time to market? |
June 2007 |
| How can I make our product development process more flexible? |
March 2007 |
| In general, how do I improve the flexibility of my product development? |
January 2007 |
| How can we improve the flexibility of our product development process? |
August 2005 |
| How is flexibility beneficial in developing new products? |
July 2005 |
| How can we complete our design work if marketing keeps changing the requirements? |
December 2004 |
| What can we do to “freeze” our product’s specifications? |
March 2004 |
| Flexible Development Isn’t Free |
Article |
Project Management
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| How can I make our project management more flexible? |
December 2006 |
| Project Management: Often Misapplied to Product Development |
Article |
Resources
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| What resources on the Internet do other product developers use? |
April 2001 |
| Where can I read about new product development techniques? |
December 2000 |
Risk
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| How do I manage risk on a project that keeps changing? |
September 2008 |
| What is the connection between flexible product development and project risk management? |
September 2007 |
| How can I develop products more flexibly by changing our decision making? |
October 2006 |
| How can we accelerate the risk management process for accelerated projects? |
May 2005 |
| My boss frequently stalls on decisions. Is this fast time to market? |
October 2004 |
| How are other companies doing at managing project risk? |
January 2004 |
| What else can we do to facilitate talking about risk? |
June 2003 |
| How can I manage my project’s risk when my boss won’t even discuss risk? |
April 2003 |
| What are the biggest mistakes I can make in managing project risk? |
September 2002 |
| How will improvements in managing project risk affect time to market? |
June 2002 |
| Is project risk management a methodical process? |
April 2002 |
| How do we understand, as a team, the risks that a project faces? |
March 2002 |
| Is there anything to know about failure beyond not punishing those who fail? |
July 2001 |
| I know that innovation is naturally chaotic, but can’t we anticipate problems better? |
June 2001 |
| What are some day-to-day tools for dealing with project risk? |
April 2000 |
| What is the essence of managing risk in a development project? |
October 1999 |
| Project Risk Management: A Proactive Approach |
Article |
Teams
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| What drives – or should drive – our product development? |
March 2008 |
| How can I develop products more flexibly by strengthening teams? |
September 2006 |
| Our team doesn’t get much done as a team. What can we do? |
July 2003 |
| When co-locating our team isn’t practical, what can we do? |
January 2003 |
| How can I break out of the e-mail vortex? |
December 2002 |
| We call ourselves a team, but we don’t act like one. What can we do? |
October 2002 |
| How can we get teams to use our product development process? |
July 2002 |
| Haven’t virtual development teams superseded co-located ones? |
March 2000 |
| What can I do to start dedicating people full-time to one project? |
April 1999 |
| Why is it so destructive to split developers between projects? |
March 1999 |
| How can our cross-functional team make decisions that stick? |
December 2001 |
Tools
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| How can I develop products more flexibly by exploiting set-based design? |
July 2006 |
| How can I develop products more flexibly by exploiting experimentation? |
June 2006 |
| How can I develop products more flexibly by exploiting product architecture? |
April 2006 |
| Where do we start in reducing time to market? |
July 2004 |
| How should we incorporate technology tools into our development process? |
December 2003 |
| Do “rapid” prototypes really speed up product development? |
September 2003 |
| How can we really benefit from rapid prototyping? |
June 2000 |
Trends
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| What is “green” product development? |
January 2006 |
| What is lean product development? |
December 2005 |
| How can we take advantage of globalization’s product development opportunities? |
October 2005 |
| What if time-to-market doesn’t completely satisfy our objectives? |
March 2005 |
| What is lean product development and should we be using it? |
September 2004 |
| What major trends do your see in product development? |
June 2004 |
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