Root Cause Diagram
A framework that helps you discover the ultimate cause of any outcome. Helps individuals or groups discover the root causes that led to a specific outcome in a product development team.
Product Development
Please download graphical tools based on our book Innovate Products Faster.
These product development templates 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. These graphical tools (graphs, charts, tables, and forms) are ready to go and can be modified for your needs. If you need the basics, check out our work on the product development process.
Four-Fields Map
A graphical technique most commonly applied to cross-functional processes. Emphasizes the elements of task, teamwork, and quality, with a focus on how you do the work rather than on what work to do.
Social Innovation Maturity Scorecard
Helps determine your organization’s maturity level relative to best practices in crowdsourcing innovation.
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.
Lite and Precise Schedule Estimating Matrices
Is a parametric tool that helps estimate the time to complete a given phase of a project. Creates a rough estimate using past experience combined with the critical few key drivers.
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.
Circle Dot Chart
Download Team Pert Chart Tool Online. This tool will help you to schedule, organize, and coordinate tasks within a project.
Schedule Prediction Accuracy Chart
Provides an early warning when a project fails to hit the schedule. Allows project teams to anticipate problems before they occur, and to intervene before projects get behind.