The Product Radar Chart offers a way to evaluate and communicate the myriad factors that go into product and portfolio decisions by graphing the key dimensions of a product or concept and comparing them to alternatives.
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Most businesses today are looking to take advantage of innovation to drive revenue growth, but they lack methods to fund the R&D expense necessary to support expansion. Use this handy visualization tool to fund innovation programs.
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A Platform Derivative Chart is a diagram that depicts a set of related products over time. This is the most powerful type of Product Roadmap that highlights relationships between derivatives.
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Retrospectives (also called Postmortems and Project Histories) can play an important role in improving predictability and speed in delivery.
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The best way to estimate the probability of success is a combination of internal factors and an understanding of the competitive structure of the market environment. Triangulation provides the most reliable guidance with the least effort.
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In new product development, innovation may entail technical risk, market risk, risk relating to outside partners, or events far beyond your control. No new product development program can avoid risk. However, much more than business-as-usual can be done to anticipate and mitigate risks proactively.
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The Community Product Requirements Chart is a tool that provides customer insights and creates opportunities for innovation.
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The Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix is a tool that helps to estimate the amount of time a project will take in any given phase. It leverages past experience combined with the critical few, key drivers that impact a project’s schedule.
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Have you ever wondered how to create a great product vision? Let’s show you. Start with some examples to get your reference frame properly set. Then look at some of the formats that might work best for you.
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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.
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The steps to create predictive product development metrics are often represented as a tree. Learn how you can avoid Bad Product Development Metrics.
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Learn about the new product development process at Apple including the major issues and four step approach to transform Apple’s new product process.
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I was talking recently with an executive general manager at a medical device company. She was very interested in deploying Agile, but she said, “What I'd really like is Agile with a small ‘a’.” …
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Four times Apple tried and failed to adopt a consistent product development process. We established a target metric with the aim of seeding the changes within the organization so that they took root.
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Product Development lessons learned from developing BOSE’s blockbusters products - BOSE’s Noise-Cancelling Headphones and the BOSE® Wave® Music System.
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AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are not just for Google and Amazon. They are beginning to be a substantial part of new products in unexpected categories. It is impacting how we manage teams and projects, enabling teams to be more efficient and creative.
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Hybrid processes that mix the discipline and long-term planning of Waterfall with the adaptability and speed of Agile are not only possible – they are best-in-class.
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John Carter founded TCGen with Jeanne Bradford to focus on helping companies execute on their product development strategies and solve most of the challenges.
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At the PDMA Conference we described ways in which Agile can extend beyond software. A case study from the presentation: a company that is a successful medical device maker has applied Agile in their organization and seen beneficial results.
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In the March-April 2018 issue of the Harvard Business Review, there is a piece called "HR Goes Agile". "Agile isn't just for tech anymore. It is been working its way into other areas and functions."
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