Do these characteristics describe your company?

• Lack of predictability for schedule or deliverables?
• Competitors deliver more timely releases or differentiating features?
• Unrealistic schedules set before plans; deadlines are constantly changing with late notification?
• Past efforts to define processes, principles and practices for product innovation were ineffective? A belief that you need measurable improvements and to improve faster than in the past?
• Need a fresh pair of eyes… to understand what you do well and not so well? Limited to what you already understand.?
• Lack a sense of urgency, focus and consensus on how to improve. Difficulty driving change?
• Weak infrastructure for governance of product development improvement?

• Impact - A clear definition of the ongoing costs of under performing at PD project execution.
• A More Robust Process - Greater buy in from process owners and users and an increased ability to flexibly adapt to various PD project types. Criteria for moving to the next phase?
• Governance Model - A clear governance model for product development performance improvement – someone in charge, with a budget and authority to drive change.
• Metrics - How we will measure success. Performance targets. Leading Indicators.
• A Plan – For transforming the current product development methods into a high performance product innovation engine.
• Buy-In - Broad based support for the changes called for in the plan.