• Use best practices for rapid progress
• Design a product development strategy that increases speed and improves productivity
• Identify and fix barriers to achieve faster new product development speed and productivity
• Construct your case to rationalize resource supply and demand when all projects are deemed ‘essential’
• Build steps to increase leverage across product/service efforts
• Lead people to face risk rationally without either hiding from it or ignoring it completely
• Address the issue of your development groups being scattered across the globe

   

Building a Foundation for Faster New Product Development

• Building your business case and coalition for increasing product development speed
• Surfacing the forces driving or inhibiting change in your firm
• Making faster product development and customer satisfaction inseparable
• Using best product development practices for operational and strategic speed 
• Incorporating the emerging role of information technology in driving development speed

 Exercise: Build the case for speed for your situation 

• Designing ‘minimum viable’ portfolio and project governance structures
• Using portfolio measurement tools to avoid developing near duplicate products and to fill
  product line gaps
• Building a framework and product architecture for re-use in multiple products
• Developing alternative portfolio strategies for speed
• Identifying and coping with disruptive technologies and change requirements
• Using partner-based development/collaboration principles for speed
  

          Exercise: Map your current portfolio 
 

Redefining the Development Process: Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Development Methods

• Accelerating the traditional phase-gate process
• Determining when to apply the phase-gate process and when to use an alternate approach
• Using a flexible product development process: how to define and design concurrently
• Creating time-effective program management processes
• Focusing the program manager role on speed
• Creating development plans that accelerate clear program definition

Case Exercise: Analyze and redesign the ‘SoftSmarts Company’ product development system

 Building a High Performance Development Community

• Designing the right team for the job
• Transforming functional-silo thinking into teamwork
• Selecting strategies for successful co-location (real and virtual)
• Improving leadership skills for speed
• Designing reward and recognition systems for speed

Metrics: Putting a Speedometer on Your Company’s Scorecard

• Understanding the difference between business, and research and development metric issues
• Defining the measures that support speed and customer satisfaction
• Designing and using predictive measures
• Building and updating development team dashboards

Implementation: How Product Development Leaders do it

• Implementation models
• Case studies: Johnson & Johnson, Cisco, and Genzyme
• Test drive: implementation plan review
• Best practices for rapid progress

 Application Session: Building your implementation plan