The Quick Tip series features short (250-300 words) suggestions to improve
your product development practices. The Quick Tip, covering one timely topic per
issue, appeared every six weeks by e-mail. The series ended in October
2008 after ten full years of publication.
In order to keep these tips short and still allow interested readers to
pursue the topic further, the quick tip often refers to other sources.
Should you wish to cite a specific issue of this periodical, mention its date
of issue and its International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1529-1928.
Listed chronologically, most recent first.
|
Date Issued |
Topic/Question |
| 21 October 2008 |
What is the most
important factor in improving product development? |
| 14 September 2008 |
How do I manage
risk on a project that keeps changing? |
| 22 July 2008 |
Why is listening
to the customer so difficult? |
| 3 June 2008 |
Isn't the
iteration that accompanies flexible product development wasteful? |
| 18 April 2008 |
Is there a
development process for flexible product development? |
| 6 March 2008 |
What drives - or
should drive - our product development? |
| 28 January 2008 |
What do you mean
by market shifts when you speak of flexibility? |
| 4 December 2007 |
Does flexible
product development complement or contradict lean product development? |
| 18 October 2007 |
Does flexible
product development complement or contradict phased development processes? |
| 4 September 2007 |
What is the
connection between flexible product development and project risk management? |
| 20 July 2007 |
Is the CEO
important to flexible product development? |
| 5 June 2007 |
What is the
connection between flexible product development and time to market? |
| 24 April 2007 |
Whatever
happened to best practices? |
| 12 March 2007 |
How can I make
our product development process more flexible? |
| 20 January 2007 |
In general, how
do I improve the flexibility of my product development? |
| 8 December 2006 |
How can I make
our project management more flexible? |
| 24 October 2006 |
How can I
develop products more flexibly by changing our decision making? |
| 8 September 2006 |
How can I develop
products more flexibly by strengthening teams? |
| 20 July 2006 |
How can I
develop products more flexibly by exploiting set-based design? |
| 12 June 2006 |
How can I
develop products more flexibly by exploiting experimentation? |
| 22 April 2006 |
How can I
develop products more flexibly by exploiting product architecture? |
| 7 March 2006 |
How can I develop
products more flexibly by working with customers? |
| 19 January 2006 |
What is "green"
product development? |
| 6 December 2005 |
What is lean
product development? |
| 21 October 2005 |
How can we take
advantage of globalization's product development opportunities? |
| 27 August 2005 |
How can we
improve the flexibility of our product development process? |
| 22 July 2005 |
How is
flexibility beneficial in developing new products? |
| 3 June 2005 |
What are the
keys to installing a new product development process? |
| 4 May 2005 |
How can we
accelerate the risk management process for accelerated projects? |
| 16 March 2005 |
What if
time-to-market doesn't completely satisfy our objectives? |
| 21 January 2005 |
Should we depend
on Sales to keep our customers happy? |
| 6 December 2004 |
How can we
complete our design work if marketing keeps changing the requirements? |
| 21 October 2004 |
My boss
frequently stalls on decisions. Is this fast time to market? |
| 7 September 2004 |
What is lean
product development and should we be using it? |
| 23 July 2004 |
Where do we
start in reducing time to market? |
| 5 June 2004 |
What major trends
do your see in product development? |
| 23 April 2004 |
How can we come
up with more/better new-product ideas? |
| 5 March 2004 |
What can we do to
"freeze" our product's specifications? |
| 23 January 2004 |
How are other
companies doing at managing project risk? |
| 8 December 2003 |
How should we
incorporate technology tools into our development process? |
| 26 October 2003 |
How can I tell
if we did well at developing our last product? |
| 5 September 2003 |
Do "rapid"
prototypes really speed up product development? |
| 24 July 2003 |
Our team doesn't
get much done as a team. What can we do? |
| 6 June 2003 |
What else can we
do to facilitate talking about risk? |
| 25 April 2003 |
How can I manage
my project's risk when my boss won't even discuss risk? |
| 6 March 2003 |
How can we
accelerate decision making, particularly in the fuzzy front end? |
| 21 January 2003 |
When co-locating
our team isn't practical, what can we do? |
| 3 December 2002 |
How can I break
out of the e-mail vortex? |
| 24 October 2002 |
We call
ourselves a team, but we don't act like one. What can we do? |
| 6 September 2002 |
What are the
biggest mistakes I can make in managing project risk? |
| 28 July 2002 |
How can we get
teams to use our product development process? |
| 23 June 2002 |
How will
improvements in managing project risk affect time to market? |
| 25 April 2002 |
Is project risk
management a methodical process? |
| 25 March 2002 |
How do we
understand, as a team, the risks that a project faces? |
| 26 January 2002 |
Why do we have
so much fire fighting, even when we manage our development process
methodically? |
| 8 December 2001 |
How can our
cross-functional team make decisions that stick? |
| 22 October 2001 |
How can we keep
from being blindsided when world priorities shift? |
| 9 September 2001 |
Should we be
using a stages-and-gates product development process? |
| 22 July 2001 |
Is there
anything to know about failure beyond not punishing those who fail? |
| 10 June 2001 |
I know that
innovation is naturally chaotic, but can't we anticipate problems better? |
| 22 April 2001 |
What resources
on the Internet do other product developers use? |
| 4 March 2001 |
How can I capture
the voice of the customer? |
| 21 January 2001 |
How can I make
our plans to improve product development "stick?" |
| 10 December 2000 |
Where can I read
about new product development techniques? |
| 20 October 2000 |
How do I hear
the voice of the customer as I develop a new product? |
| 4 September 2000 |
Doesn't rapid
product development mean that quality will suffer? |
| 23 July 2000 |
How can we avoid
"technology push" without avoiding technology? |
| 3 June 2000 |
How can we really
benefit from rapid prototyping? |
| 23 April 2000 |
What are some
day-to-day tools for dealing with project risk? |
| 19 March 2000 |
Haven't virtual
development teams superseded co-located ones? |
| 22 January 2000 |
What should my
boss do to speed up product development? |
| 5 December 1999 |
Should
engineers be spending their precious time visiting customers? |
| 17 October 1999 |
What is the
essence of managing risk in a development project? |
| 7 September 1999 |
How much does
it cost to speed up product development? |
| 3 August 1999 |
Can we
accelerate product development using a "Faster, Better, Cheaper" program? |
| 9 June 1999 |
How do I find
truly valuable development process improvements? |
| 29 April 1999 |
What can I do
to start dedicating people full-time to one project? |
| 10 March 1999 |
Why is it so
destructive to split developers between projects? |
| 21 January 1999 |
Are there
situations where cost-of-delay calculations don't apply? |
| 9 December 1998 |
Calculating
the cost of delay |
