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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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New Product Development Process At Apple (4 Steps) | TCGen

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Attitude Influence Diagram

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.

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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.

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Risk Management Matrix: Anticipating and Mitigating Risk

You can’t take the risk out of invention and no project is completely risk-free. But you can reduce the risk, even in the most innovative programs. How? By anticipating it. The Risk Management Matrix is an elegant way to anticipate, manage, and mitigate product development risks.

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