Product Development
AI Adoption That Works: Practical Frameworks for AI-Accelerated Delivery
We interviewed 15 executives at VC-backed, PE-backed, and public companies to find what drives AI adoption success. Key findings: 20–50% productivity gains for high-maturity teams, 40x acceleration in prototyping, and the most common anti-patterns to avoid.
Predictive Metrics - Measuring the right things to ensure project success
Companies are measuring the wrong things and ending up with the wrong results. Many times we get stuck on measuring what’s easy instead of what’s useful. Predictive metrics are a solution.
Schedule Prediction Accuracy - Anticipating Problems to Deliver On Time
Measuring schedules is not new. Using this graphical tool, that allows you to quickly monitor performance to the initial plan and check key drivers that can take you off course, is a new technique for many organizations.
New Product Consulting: Maximizing Your Product's Potential
New product consulting is a service that helps inventors, startups, and small businesses bring their product ideas to life. The process involves market research, product innovation and design, and strategies for effective product launch.
Quality, Time, Scope - in the right order
Have you made a clear decision about how to order Quality, Time, and Scope in your organization? If not, you may not be getting the results you want.
Five Habits That Can Accelerate Product Development
Better development habits let your team deliver more value, faster. This paper explores five key habits that the team at Agilent’s Software division adopted to double their productivity and build competitive advantage in the contested market for laboratory informatics.
Escalation Process In 4 Steps With Escalation Template
The Escalation Process clarifies the boundaries and channels of decision-making throughout an organization in order to solve the problem quickly and with clarity.
What is the Stage-Gate Process? Pros and Cons
The Stage-Gate Process divides product development into 5 stages where progress to the next stage is approved at the gate.
Product Development Life Cycle: The 4 Stages Explained
Product development life cycle describes the 4 stages of a product’s life: 1. Introduction, 2. Growth, 3. Maturity, 4. and Decline. It is fundamentally part of your product development strategy.
Digital Product Development Process: A Complete Breakdown
Learn about the digital product development process to start creating digital products that solve customer problems, provide value, and drive profits.
Product Development Strategy
A product development strategy guides development of new products or changes to existing products to maximize sales.
Project Efficiency: 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 and improve project efficiency. The optimum load is approximately 2 projects – one large and one small.
Execution: Quickly Estimating Accurate Project Schedules
The Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix is a tool that helps to estimate the amount of time a project will take in any given phase. It leverages past experience combined with the critical few, key drivers that impact a project’s schedule.
Getting a Project Back on the Rails
Setting “project boundaries and conditions” at the time of a project’s approval is an effective way to create a “contract” between the management and project teams.
Your Company Is Not Investing Enough in Engineering Productivity, And You Know It!
Organizations are failing to take a stake in improving productivity in engineering, a core process that is the engine of top-line growth.
Product Development Roadmap: Tips For Making Agile Roadmaps
Learn what product development roadmap is, its benefits, pitfalls and much more in our ultimate guide on product development roadmap.
NPI - New Product Introduction | 2023 Definitive Guide | TCGen
The new product introduction process is a set of repeatable steps or stages a company uses to realize the new product to satisfy a market need.
New Product Development Process
A new product development process is a series of stages to turn an idea into a product that satisfies customer needs.
Product Development [Explainer] Definition and Examples | 2024
Agile Product Development enables companies to develop products quickly and respond rapidly to change involving self managing teams.
Medical Product Development: Creating a Successful Medical Device
Understand the medical product development process to create medical devices from scratch to finish, get regulatory approval, and drive profits to your business.
Software Product Development: Definition, Importance, and Complete Process
Learn what software product development is and how to make successful software products using a tried-and-tested process with the Agile and Waterfall approach.
9 Essential Product Development KPIs to Drive Business Growth
Product development KPIs, or key performance indicators, are specific product management metrics that track and monitor business goals and give vital insights into the product development process.
How to Develop a Successful Food Product in 2023 (Complete Process + Steps)
Creating a new and innovative food product follows a complex process. In this post, we explore how to create a successful food product step-by-step in 2023.
Cosmetic Product Development: 4 Simple Steps to Launch Your Successful Beauty Product
Learn what cosmetic product development is & identify opportunities to create your successful beauty product lineup while gaining a competitive advantage.
A Brief Guide to Engineering Product Development
Learn about engineering product development and the role of product engineers in creating high-value products
The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Product Development
Discover the electronic product development process to create quality hardware, scale operations, and drive profits.
Market Development VS Product Development: Definition & Key Differences
Discover the difference between market development and product development to help implement the right growth strategy for your business
Pharmaceutical Product Development All You Need to Know
Learn about pharmaceutical product development. Create innovative drugs for customers to gain a competitive edge.
Fashion Product Development: A Complete Guide
Get a deeper understanding of the fashion product development process to create better products consistently and skyrocket your fashion business growth.
Guide to Design Thinking: Design Thinking is About Product Development
Design thinking is about product development. In new product development, it is a means to direct and focus innovation that drives growth in sales and profits.
The UX-Product Development Overlap: What Are Their Roles And How They Function Together
Learn how UX specialists’ skills overlap with other teams in the digital product development process.
Product Innovation Management (What You Need to Know)
Discover the different types of product innovation, and learn how you can manage and encourage it across your business research and development teams.
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.
What is the difference between product management and product development?
Learn more about the differences between product management and product development in our ultimate guide.
Time To Market (TTM): What it is & Why It's Important
Time to market (TTM) is the length of time to develop a product from conception until it is released to the market and is available for sale.
Lean Product Development: An Introductory Guide
Learn more about lean product development, its benefits, implementation, and tips for success in our guide.
New Product Development | Creating Great Products | TCGen (new)
New product development is the ideation, design, production, pricing, and launching of new products to your target customers to provide a solution that addresses an important need.
Product Development Metrics
Boost innovation with TCGen’s Product Development Metrics Consulting. Enhance leadership, make superior decisions, and drive remarkable growth today!
Product Development Process Tools
These Product Development Process Tools are based on real life examples, and have been tested in the field with clients on multiple engagements. We often are stuck when first getting started working on a complex issue, because we don’t know how to take the first step.
Product Development Metrics Tools
These Product Development Metrics Tools are based on real life examples, and have been tested in the field with clients on multiple engagements. We often are stuck when first getting started working on a complex issue, because we don’t know how to take the first step.
The Best New Product Development Process [Definitive Guide] (new)
The new product development process describes the steps to move from an idea to a finished product to generate a profit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Visualizing the Resource Gaps in Product Development Projects
Inadequate staffing or unclear priorities can leave resource gaps that derail projects. Team Wheel helps identify resource gaps.
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.
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.
How do you quantify the probability of success of a new product?
The best way to estimate the probability of success is a combination of internal factors and an understanding of the competitive structure of the market environment. Triangulation provides the most reliable guidance with the least effort.
How to Manage Risk Proactively
Innovation entails many kinds of risk: technical, market, or risks related to external events. Product developers can’t avoid it, but they can do more to mitigate risks.
Seven Product Development Process Lessons from BOSE’s Blockbusters
Product Development lessons learned from developing BOSE’s blockbusters products - BOSE’s Noise-Cancelling Headphones and the BOSE® Wave® Music System.
Technology Roadmaps: Anticipating Future Technology Trends
The Technology Roadmaps ties technologies & product timetables together by indicating which core technologies will be mature enough to incorporate into a particular product release.
Social Community Matrix: Getting the Most Out of Social Communities
Many of our clients are using virtual communities to communicate and collaborate with outside partners. Managed communities enable you to share ideas and present the best proposals to the leadership team. Here’s a tool that helps select the best type of community for your needs.
Anticipating Risks: The Risk Mind Map
The Risk Mind Map enables a team to create a comprehensive risk profile. It allows management to anticipate where risks might arise and to prepare to meet these challenges more effectively.
Optimizing Processes: Four Fields Mapping
Four-Fields Process Map Originated in Japan, the Four-Fields Map is a graphical technique most commonly applied to cross-functional processes.
Managing Project Cadence: Deliverable Hit Rate Chart
The Deliverable Hit Rate tool manages project cadence by monitoring the progress of completed tasks against a target over time.
Innovate Products Faster
Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development