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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Visualizing the Unexpected
Project post mortems can be an excellent tool for learning from mistakes and implementing process and decision-making improvements.
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.
Forecasting the Future
The Improvement Forecaster consists of an equation, and a graphical plot of expected improvement over time. It uses estimated degrees of technical and organizational complexity, and based on prior programs, estimates a rate of improvement.
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.