Skip to content 
Predictive Metrics Tree: Measuring the Behaviors That Drive Results
The Predictive Metrics Tree is a tool that ensures that what you’re measuring helps you achieve your program goals. Learn to create Predictive Metrics Tree.
Getting a Project Back on the Rails
Setting “boundary conditions” at the time of a project’s approval is an effective way to create a “contract” between the management and project teams.
Your Company Is Not Investing Enough in Engineering Productivity, And You Know It!
Organizations are failing to take a stake in improving product development productivity, a core process that is the engine of top-line growth.
Dot Voting – Evaluating Ideas, Prioritizing Action
Dot Voting is a process in which a team can take a large amount of data and quickly gain focus on the most relevant elements based on the team’s shared analysis.
Escalation Process In 4 Steps With Escalation Template
The Escalation Process clarifies the boundaries and channels of decision-making throughout an organization. Designed around the concept of a core project team, the Escalation Process diagram displays a path that allows the core team to make decisions at lower levels of the org chart while having a predefined path for exception management.
Stop Measuring Results: Start Measuring Predictive Indicators First
Companies are producing the wrong results, because they’re measuring the wrong things. If you want to ensure long–term success use short-term predictive metrics to quickly inform you that you’re on the right path.
Unclear Escalation Paths Can Kill Projects
At the beginning of any major project or program, defining a clear escalation path and protocols for problems will greatly speed the project.
New Product Development Process At Apple (4 Steps)
Learn about the new product development process at Apple including the major issues and four step approach to transform Apple’s new product process.
Product Development Checklist
The fastest way to destroy an Agile implementation is to let functional silos get in the way. Unfortunately, it happens all the time. And it happens because many companies underestimate the organizational implications of a successful Agile implementation.
Program Managers: Linchpin of Product Development Agility
The rate of technology and market change today is staggering. Yet, too many companies lack a Portfolio Management process that enables them to respond effectively to such shifts in markets and in the labs.
A Front-End Management Process For Innovation: Removing The Fuzz from the Front-End
We have advocated two systems for managing your company’s early stage product innovation activities. The first is a yearly planning process that ties the company’s vision to a strategy, and provides roadmaps that drive the annual budgeting process.
Innovation: Are Two Systems Better Than One?
In too many companies, the front end of development remains fuzzy. The same companies that will micro-manage IT, or spend time simplifying a portion of their manufacturing operations, show little interest in improving the early stage innovation activities that drive future growth.