Accelerating Product Development Using Project Management

MDP116 - Accelerating Product Development Using Project Management

Course description
Time to market can make the difference between business success and failure for many organizations. To achieve optimal time to market, an organization must accelerate its own processes while adapting to shifting market requirements. Learn proven techniques that you can apply to your next product development effort

Who should attend
Project managers responsible for new product development, engineering directors, and engineering program managers.

Prerequisites
Experience managing product development efforts, and basic financial knowledge is strongly suggested. (Business Management Skills for Project Managers).

What you will achieve

• An understanding of where and how time is wasted in most product development efforts, and what you can do to achieve faster time to market


• An understanding of best practices for accelerating product development, and how to apply them in your development organization


• The ability to organize senior management in the product development process


• Use critical chain scheduling and other best practices to accelerate development schedules

What you will learn

• Shortcomings of Common Product Development Efforts - Where time is lost during most development efforts, and how to avoid these traps on your next product development effort


• Identifying Best Practices - How successful companies deliberately manage product development as a competitive advantage


• Incorporating Best Practices into your Development Effort - How to define and manage various acceleration techniques, such as time boxing and prototyping, and accommodate these techniques with common project management tools


• New tools for Accelerated Development - Use critical chain scheduling and Design Structure Matrices as schedule acceleration tools


• Managing Evolving Requirements - How to structure the development project to accommodate both firm and dynamic product requirements

• Advanced IT Project Management
• Advanced Project Scheduling
• Advanced Purchasing Strategies sup sm sup
• Advanced Strategic Planning
• BPM Professional Certification Practicum - Conducting an Analysis and Design Project
• Building Cultural Intelligence
• Business Management Skills for Project Managers
• Business Writing for Results
• Certificate in Applied Project Management Days
• Certificate in Applied Project Management Evenings
• Chartering Teams to High Performance
• Coaching for Business Results
• Commercializing New Products and Services Rapidity and Results
• Communicating with Influence Building Successful Interpersonal Team Communication
• Design For Six Sigma Service
• Developing a Project Management Office
• Developing Into a Powerful Leader
• Directing Teams to Finesse Team Facilitation and Coaching
• Driving Performance Through Emotional Intelligence
• Effective Project Leadership
• Finance Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
• Getting Our Message Across Strategies for More Effective and Confident Public Speaking
• How To Achieve Results Through Influencing
• How to Purchase Services
• Improving Purchasing Performance - Developing New Skills for A Changing Profession
• Improving Supervisory Management Skills
• Improving Your Presentation Skills
• Improving Your Purchasing Negotiating Skills sup sm sup
• Information Gathering and Facilitation for Business Processes
• Introduction to Business Process Management for Business Analysts
• Introduction to Business Process Management for Project Managers
• Introduction to Business Process Modeling Analysis and Design
• Leadership Excellence in a Complex World
• Leading Managing Successful Teams
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Listening to Influence Getting More Out of Conversations
• Making Your Ideas Theirs Advanced Communication Strategies
• Management Planning The Bridge Between Strategic Direction and Project Implementation
• Managing a Business Process Project
• Managing Generational Differences Piloting and Motivating the New Work Force
• Managing Information Technology IT Projects
• Managing Successful Negotiations
• Managing Troubled Projects
• Maximizing Global Success Designing and Managing Remote Operations
• Newly Appointed Managers
• Peer Mentoring A practical approach to knowledge transfer
• Positive Assertive Management
• Preparing for the PMP Exam
• PRINCE2 Foundation
• PRINCE2 Overview
• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Principles of Business Process Management
• Principles of Project Management Business Analysis
• Principles Techniques of Project Management
• Program Management Managing in the Complex Multiple Project Environment
• Project Communications Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Framework and Integration Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Management Earned Value Management Systems Methods EVMS
• Project Management Fast Track
• Project Management for Everyone A non-technical approach
• Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2003
• Project Planning and Control
• Project Procurement Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management
• Relationship Management Up Down and Sideways
• Seven Steps to Improved Work Flows
• Simulation of Real World Project Management
• Situational Leadership - Twelve O Clock High
• Situational Leadership The Core
• Six Sigma Champions Training
• Strategic Alignment of the Project Portfolio
• Strategic Decision-Making and Problem-Solving for Leaders
• Strategic Marketing Concepts Strategies
• Strategic Thinking Planning and Deployment
• Strategies for Managing Change Managing People in a Changing Environment
• Strengthening Effectiveness Across Organizational Boundaries
• The 5 Management Essentials for New Managers and Supervisors
• The Legal Aspects of Purchasing sup sm sup
• Time Management Survival Skills
• Understanding Managing Conflict
• Understanding Working with People