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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.
High Performance Teams
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.
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.
Attitude Influence Diagram: Eliminating Political Roadblocks
Have you ever had an excellent product concept derailed by internal politics? It is frustrating since good ideas that could benefit the company as well as the individuals involved are blocked for irrational causes. The Attitude Influence Diagram is one tool that helps to overcome political obstacles.
Building High Performance Teams To Drive Innovation
Creating high-performance teams is a competitive advantage. Through high performance teams it is possible to quickly innovate and deliver winning products to market.
Getting More Done by Doing Less
Managers want to optimize their resources by loading them up and have them do more on the priority list to satisfy the executive suite. The optimum load is approximately 2 projects – one large and one small.
Visualizing the Resource Gaps in Product Development Projects
Inadequate staffing or unclear priorities across organizations often leave resource gaps that throws the project off the rails. Identify the resource gaps in Project Management.
The Function Phase Matrix: Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities
The Function Phase Matrix helps clarify cross-functional team objectives, roles and responsibilities. It tracks key deliverables across the phases of a project and identifies each function’s participation in each of these phases.
Tips For Leading a Globally Distributed Group
Keeping a group of people of different cultures and different time-zones coordinated and productive can be a monumental task. Here are seven tips that may help.
Circle Dot Chart: Clarifying Responsibilities
Sorting out who does what on a project is pretty basic. Clear tasks with clear responsibilities and deadlines is Project Management 101. But how many projects have you managed where it was unclear who was responsible for a deliverable until it turned into a mess? The Circle Dot Chart addresses this issue.
Staffing Ratio Matrix: Optimizing Workloads Across Functions
The Staffing Ratio Matrix contains a summary of all the projects in a given function, charted against the key functions found on a cross-functional team.
Need to improve team performance? Find and Correct the “Pinch-Points”
Pitch points for Teams that develop new products and are challenged to produce a high-quality, valuable solutions in as short a time as possible and within budget.