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Class Location:
Open Technology
Business Center
- Main
Training Room
Cornell Oaks Business Park - Commons Building
15455 N.W. Greenbrier Parkway Suite 210
Beaverton, OR 97006
USA
(We can also teach this course in-house. Call or
email us for details)
SIGN UP for June 26 - 27 Course
Course
Fee: $899 - includes text book, course book and
materials
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Book Included in
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Why
Flexible Product Development?
Research clearly shows
that original requirements specs and development plans
are essentially NEVER implemented
as is, past design
freeze! In other words, "plan your work, work your plan"
is, in practice, a myth and a very expensive one. The
living proof is the almost universal number of
engineering changes (ECNs) that occur in most companies,
as release to production approaches.
Two major movements
have begun to address this phenomenon: Agile software
development and the Toyota Development System. Both have
had remarkable success with maintaining flexibility
while STILL meeting key customer and business
milestones!
Preston Smith has
collected and organized some of the key success
practices of these two fields and generalized them into
a collection of starting points for companies to adopt.
The methods are designed to apply to all types of development,
not just software.
Flexible Development will
be the next big wave of development methodology. This
workshop will enable you to be one of the first to get
on this new train.
Who
Should Attend
Product Development
Managers who
need to add flexibility to their product development
process while retaining the benefits of disciplined
development methods and predictable deadlines.
Project
Managers
who need to understand how flexibility is possible even
after full scale development is started while still
meeting critical business mileposts.
Executive Leaders
seeking
a better way to adapt to changing market and technology
while still maintaining control over development costs
and schedules
Designers and Engineers who are
frustrated by systems which thwart the naturally
occurring insights and breakthroughs during development
and limit the required creativity and innovation
occurring naturally during the engineering process.
IT
Managers
seeking
ways to manage projects with constant new customer
inputs and needs even late in development.
1.
Understanding Flexibility
2.
Customers and Product Requirements
3.
Modular Product Architectures
4.
Experimentation and Front-end loading
5.
Set-Based Design
6.
Development Teams and People Factors
7.
Decision Making: value of information, what can be
deferred, creating decision trees
8.
Project Management for flexibility: new methods,
building in adaptation while reducing risk
9.
Product Development Processes
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Emergent processes
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Iterative and Incremental Innovation
10.
Implementing Flexibility
Your Instructor
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Preston Smith
is one of the world's leading minds in
New Product Development. Preston holds a
PhD from Stanford University, is a
member of the Product Development and
Management Association and is a
Certified Management Consultant. He is
the author or coauthor of three leading
books in the field: Developing Products in Half the Time
(with Don Reinertsen), Proactive Risk
Management (with Guy Merritt), and most
currently, Flexible Product Development
published last year.
Preston's first 20
professional years were spent in
engineering and management positions in
aerospace, automotive, highway safety,
defense and a variety of other
industries and in addition spent 5 years
at NASA providing systems engineering
for the Manned Space Program. In the
second half of his career Preston has
been as an independent management
consultant specializing in advanced
product development and risk management
techniques. Preston has led over 120
product development seminars in 23 countries.
His most recent contributions to the
Product Development field are embedded
in his new book and are the subject of
this course. |
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This course is being offered in partnership between
Innovation Frameworks and New Product Dynamics.
Course
Fee: $899 - includes text book, course book and
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