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ArticlesArticles and whitepapers of interest to the product development community.
Barriers to Agile Product Development. Software developers are embracing the value of Agile development, but developers outside of the software domain are slow to adopt agile principles. One reason is that decades-old beliefs about project planning are deeply ingrained in management thinking.
Discounted Growth Valuation. Focus NPV metrics on the new product growth cycle rather than capital returns, and you get a new set of financial metrics that link NPD decisions directly to top level business goals.
Designs change. Deal with it! Contrary to common beliefs, mid-stream changes in design projects are the rule, not the exception. Some preparation greatly reduces the cost of these changes.
Avoid 11-th hour project dilemmas by preparing for change. A recent visions article explains how principles of Flexible Development help to avoid the costly dilemma to do it wrong or do it over.
Flexibility costs and benefits. A white paper with Preston Smith on the costs and benefits of Flexible Product Development based on interviews with product development leaders. Also available: Slides from the online forum.
3 Principles to Improve Product Innovation. Firms that look for improvements exclusively in the engineering department are missing the mark. This article presents ideas for company-wide improvements to the new product effort.
Rightsizing your New Product Process. No matter what size a company is, it's a bad idea to adopt another company's "best practices" NPD processes are a balance between costs and benefits, and a process that doesn't fit won't produce the best results.
When the Solution is not the Opposite of the Problem. Organizations often find themselves bouncing back and forth between a problem and a "solution" that doesn't work. Using ideas from the organizational theory of polarity management, this article explains causes of and solutions to this perplexing situation.
Improving R&D results: Count on the Uncountable. There are 5 important dimensions of performance for product development, but only 2 are countable. Managers who insist exclusively on measureable metrics see only an incomplete picture.
Is Friction Dragging Down your New Product Results? Don't just accept conflict between talented technologists working on new products. This kind of friction can seriously undermine business results.
Hiring for Skills Plus Cultural Fit. Do you find yourself hiring for the same position over and over again? You may be hiring for skills and experience, but ignoring cultural fit.
Efficient Communications. Managers at most technical firms focus their attention on tangible issues: hard facts and measureable data. But intangible issues such as communications can have a tangible impact on business results.
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