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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.
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.
Outsourcing Map: Harnessing the Global Workforce
You may have decided to outsource or offshore some of your product development or other business processes. But how do you decide what processes to outsource and what partners to use? This tool helps you select the right resources.
Visualizing the Resource Gaps
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.
A Strategic Planning Process for Innovation: A Long Term Horizon for Product Planning
Before projects become products, they are ideas in the minds of your teams. They begin as product concepts, germs of your company’s future growth. How can companies manage the portfolio of product ideas?
Best Practices in Innovation: Creating Better Innovations Faster
Our clients often ask us how they can become more innovative. Some seem to believe that innovation appears as if by magic. Many believe that there is no process for innovation. We have identified three practices that are research-verified, an end-to-end series of steps that yield the best ideas.
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.
How Should Product Teams Engage Senior Management?
New product development is the lifeblood of your organization and all levels of management are involved in some manner in the process.
Is Your Recruiting Process Damaging Your Brand?
Get to know about the simple auto responses that you can use in your recruiting process to improve your reputation and brand.
How to “Control” an Agile Development Project
So-called “Waterfall” or “Phase-Gate” product development methodologies often give management the illusion that they are under control of the project, while they are actually just meddling and slowing it down.
Don’t Let Functional Silos Kill Your Agile Implementation
Functional Silos lets the organizations to destroy Agile Implementation. When functional organizations do not support the transition to Agile, your implementation is defeated before it begins.
Product Roadmap Template + Tips For Making Agile Roadmaps
At their best, Product Roadmaps provide a visual explanation of a company’s strategy. They help align Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Support, and the C-suite. Done right, product roadmaps serve as an organizing principle for decisions around technology requirements, resource allocation, and product positioning.