Product Development Process
Pearls of Innovation - Visual Tools to Make Better Product Decisions
TCGen principal and Innovate Products Faster co-author Jeanne Bradford explores how visual tools help product teams make better decisions, communicate more clearly, and bring products to market faster.
Team PERT Chart
Breaks projects down into tasks, shows the dependencies of one work stream on another, and provides real estimates, created by the people who actually perform the tasks.
Task Burn Down Chart
Shows the team and management how much progress they are making on a project. An improvement on Gantt Charts in that it focuses on customers, and provides a more accurate estimate of the work performed on a project in-progress.
Social Innovation Maturity Scorecard
Social Innovation enables organizations to tap the wisdom of the crowd, both inside and outside of your company. The Social Innovation Maturity Scorecard helps determine your organization's maturity l...
Schedule Prediction Accuracy Chart
The Schedule Prediction Accuracy Chart provides an early warning when a project fails to hit the schedule. This tool allows project teams to anticipate problems before they occur, and to intervene bef...
Root Cause Diagram
The Root Cause Diagram is a framework that helps you discover the ultimate cause of any outcome. Also known as the Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram, it is a graphical representation of an evidence-based m...
Product Development Strategy Process
Effective product development strategy connects long-term goals to the daily management of product concepts. A strategic product planning process links together the company's vision, with the strategi...
Lite and Precise Schedule Estimating Matrices
The Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix is a parametric tool that helps estimate the time to complete a given phase of a project. It creates a rough estimate using past experience combined with the critic...
Innovate Products Faster
Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development
Four-Fields Map
The Four-Fields Map is a graphical technique most commonly applied to cross-functional processes. It emphasizes the elements of task, teamwork, and quality, with a focus on how you do the work rather...
Circle Dot Chart
This simplified RACI helps you clarify who owns what decisions within a project.