Management Roundtable Product Development Columns

 

Preston Smith wrote a column for the  newsletter, Product Development Best Practices Report, formerly published by Management Roundtable. It provided product developers with information and case studies on the latest advances in the field. These columns are provided here for your convenience with permission from Management Roundtable.

Issue	Title
January 2004	Should Product Specifications Be "Frozen?"
September 2003	It's Not About the Technology
May 2003	Do It Wrong the First Time
January 2003	Not All Teams Are Created Equal
September 2002	On Being Proactive
May 2002	The Risk in Time to Market
January 2002	Just The Facts, Ma'am
September 2001	You Can't Do It Right the First Time
May 2001	Cherishing Failure
January 2001	New Year's Resolution Check-up
September 2000	Are Your Inmates out of Touch?
May 2000	Deploying Product Development Expertise
January 2000	Want Virtual Results? Use A Virtual Team
September 1999	Revisiting Iterative Product Development
May 1999	Getting Beyond Flavor-of-the-Month Process Improvements
January 1999	Can You Afford to Split People Between Projects?
September 1998	Exploiting Product Modularity As a Time-Compression Tool
May 1998	Rapid Product Development Isn't for Everybody
January 1998	Procuring Technology to Improve Product Development
September 1997	Learning from Your Development Projects
May 1997	Will You Profit from Rapid Product Development?

 

For other contributions that Preston has made to this Management Roundtable publication, see the interviews on  outsourcing product development and the faster, better, cheaper syndrome, as well as the article, "How Product Developers Use the Internet." Preston also led Management Roundtable workshops.

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