8 Signs your Product Development System Needs Some Love
8 signs your product development system is broken and needs to be fixed ...
8 Ways To Manage Contract Designers
Engaging a product development organization to help you develop your product has many advantages — but also potential problems. This ...
9 Common Product Development Problems
As product development consultants, we have experienced the following problems listed below. They may seem overwhelming but they can ...
A Portrait of Risk
Using two examples of risks from industry, this article shows how a risk model provides a picture of a risk ...
A sad story in being risk averse
We met with a company a year ago that developed products that were going in the direction of the ...
Accelerated Product Development: Techniques and Traps
An update of our book, Developing Products in Half the Time, emphasizing where the major opportunities and pitfalls lie in ...
Accelerating Design for Complex Products
Complexity can cause design work to rise exponentially with the number of components. This article offers ways to counter this ...
Act Like A Chef When Developing Products
In product development, as in a professional kitchen, experimentation and exploration are integral to creating a new recipe. It's hard ...
Agile Risks/Agile Rewards
Describes how the conventional project risk management process can be accelerated dramatically for an agile project. Preston G. Smith and ...
An expensive lesson: Not measuring project risk upfront
Our firm was brought into a company that encountered product development process issues. Some of the symptoms included missing ...
