Download or read book Exploratory Product Development Executive Version written by Mary Drotar and published by Product Innovation Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This executive version of Exploratory PD® (ExPD) examines the organizational constraints imposed by a standard phased-and-gated product development process. ExPD differs from the traditional phased-and-gated process in its fundamental redesign of the development process to reduce uncertainties and risks. It is an adaptive approach that responds quickly to changes in uncertain, fast-changing and increasingly complex environments. When companies try to maintain a traditional phased-and-gated process in a changing environment, the product development team is unable to manage the scope, timeline, and budget approved at the outset. The result usually includes changing product requirements, unexpected problems, rework, schedule delays, breaking the budget and commercial failure. The product development team needs an approach that allows them to adapt to change in customer needs, markets, competition, technology and more. ExPD helps project teams identify, evaluate, and prioritize uncertainties and risks throughout a project. It then helps the team determine how and when to resolve the uncertainty or when it is appropriate to kill a project. Out of this process, the authors developed the Business Fit Framework® (BFF) software tool that helps project teams to identify, evaluate and prioritize the most impactful product uncertainties and risks. As well as, tracking and resolving these risks. The authors received an NSF STEM, I-Corp Grant through the University of Chicago for the BFF. This grant enabled the authors to conduct further research on the topic of uncertainty and risk in product development, and how mid to large-cap companies currently cope with it. Within this ExPD executive version, we look at the lessons of the Manhattan Project, a highly successful historical project. We discuss the three major components of the ExPD process: 1. Strategy, 2. Ideas & Selection, 3. Explore & Create. We then provide a case study to illustrate the ExPD process in practice.
Download or read book Exploratory Product Development written by Mary Drotar and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploratory PD® (ExPD) differs from the traditional phased-and-gated process in its fundamental redesign of the development process to reduce uncertainties and risks. It is an adaptive approach that responds quickly to changes in internal and external factors.Many companies are finding themselves in an environment that is uncertain, fast-changing and increasingly complex. In this kind of environment, where much is unknown and evolving, the traditional phased-and-gated process cannot reliably identify new kinds of uncertainty and risk. When companies try to maintain a traditional phased-and-gated process in a changing environment, the product development team is unable to manage the scope, timeline, and budget approved at the outset. The result usually includes changing product requirements, unexpected problems, rework, schedule delays, breaking the budget and commercial failure.The product development team needs an approach that allows them to adapt to change in customer needs, markets, competition, technology and more. ExPD helps project teams identify, evaluate, and prioritize uncertainties and risks throughout a project. It then helps the team determine how and when to resolve the uncertainty or when it is appropriate to kill a project. This executive version examines the organizational constraints imposed by a standard phased-and-gated product development process. We discuss why those constraints are a problem for organizations operating in today's complex and changing world. We look at the lessons of the Manhattan Project, a highly successful historical project. We then provide the major components of ExPD: 1. Strategy, 2. Idea & Selection, and 3. Explore & Create and provide a case study to illustrate the ExPD process in practice.
Download or read book Learn Adapt written by Mary Drotar and published by Product Innovation Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launch promotion: 25% off through 10/3/2022. In this user guide, we present Exploratory Product Development (ExPD), a strategy-to-launch product development approach that is adaptable and can respond nimbly to environments that are increasingly complex and uncertain. Using the ExPD approach, you can discover how to accelerate your product development process by removing bureaucracy and rework, learning through experimentation, and shifting your focus to the most critical product priorities. We examine the constraints imposed by a traditional phased-and-gated product development process and demonstrate the transformational role of the ExPD approach in adapting to individual product needs. This user guide is for product developers in established enterprises looking to install a new or improved product development process. Product developers in start-ups will also benefit from many of the ideas, tools, and techniques covered in this guide. We provide case studies and examples that transition these concepts from theory into practice. Implementing the ExPD approach will result in a product development function that is stronger, more focused, and more resilient to change. You will better understand the role strategy and business models play in product development and how to build a productive idea pipeline. Also, you will gain a new appreciation for the need to identify, assess and resolve uncertainty and risk before investing in a product, giving you greater confidence in your ability to win savings in resources and time to market and ultimately achieve greater product success.
Download or read book Exploratory Software Testing written by James A. Whittaker and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Find and Fix the Killer Software Bugs that Evade Conventional Testing In Exploratory Software Testing, renowned software testing expert James Whittaker reveals the real causes of today’s most serious, well-hidden software bugs--and introduces powerful new “exploratory” techniques for finding and correcting them. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience working at the cutting edge of testing with Google, Microsoft, and other top software organizations, Whittaker introduces innovative new processes for manual testing that are repeatable, prescriptive, teachable, and extremely effective. Whittaker defines both in-the-small techniques for individual testers and in-the-large techniques to supercharge test teams. He also introduces a hybrid strategy for injecting exploratory concepts into traditional scripted testing. You’ll learn when to use each, and how to use them all successfully. Concise, entertaining, and actionable, this book introduces robust techniques that have been used extensively by real testers on shipping software, illuminating their actual experiences with these techniques, and the results they’ve achieved. Writing for testers, QA specialists, developers, program managers, and architects alike, Whittaker answers crucial questions such as: • Why do some bugs remain invisible to automated testing--and how can I uncover them? • What techniques will help me consistently discover and eliminate “show stopper” bugs? • How do I make manual testing more effective--and less boring and unpleasant? • What’s the most effective high-level test strategy for each project? • Which inputs should I test when I can’t test them all? • Which test cases will provide the best feature coverage? • How can I get better results by combining exploratory testing with traditional script or scenario-based testing? • How do I reflect feedback from the development process, such as code changes?
Download or read book An Exploratory Study of Product Development Teams from an Adaptive Controls Perspective written by Charles F. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploratory and Exploitative Market Learning in Discontinuous New Product Development written by Armand Smits and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research presents the results of an inductive comparative case study of how exploratory and exploitative market learning is balanced during the development of eight discontinuous new product development projects in six different business units of different multinationals in the chemical industry. For these projects, all recently introduced into the market, we find market knowledge to be a multi-dimensional construct consisting of segment, product, application, and customer knowledge. We illustrate how a project's exploratory and exploitative market learning is balanced across market knowledge dimensions and over time. More specifically, we find three generic market learning patterns that can be distinguished based on their trade-off between exploratory and exploitative market learning. Our data also allow us to identify several organizational arrangements, such as the organizational position of the projects' core marketing function and senior management's decision roles, which seem important in shaping different market learning patterns. Overall this research contributes to the emerging literature on exploratory market learning in new product development.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on New Product Development written by Peter N. Golder and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New products are the major driver of revenue growth in today's dynamic business environment. In this Handbook, the world's foremost experts on new product development bring together the latest thinking on this vitally important topic. These thought-leading authors organize knowledge into useful and insightful frameworks covering all aspects of new product development: companies, collaborators, customers, context, markets, and performance. Managers will benefit from the handbook by expanding their knowledge of new product development and researchers will learn about opportunities to continue expanding on this body of knowledge.
Download or read book New Product Forecasting written by Kenneth B. Kahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise and jargon free, this is a one-step primer on the tools and techniques of forecasting new product development. Equally useful for students and professionals, the book is generously illustrated, and features numerous current real-world industry cases and examples. Part I covers the basic foundations and processes of new product forecasting, and links forecasting to the broader processes of new product development and sales and operations planning. Part II includes detailed, step-by-step techniques of new product forecasting, from judgmental techniques to regression analysis. Each chapter in this section begins with the most basic techniques, then progresses to more advanced levels. Part III addresses managerial considerations of new product forecasting, including postlaunch issues such as cannibalization and supercession. The final chapter presents an important set of industry best practices and benchmarks.
Download or read book New Product Development Process for Microelectromechanical Systems Industry an Exploratory Study written by Russell Timothy Rudin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing New Products and Services written by Lawrence Sanders and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will focus on the up-front activities required for product and service differentiation, the learning methodologies that contribute to arriving at that differentiation, and the role that technology plays in implementing the process. The book will show how technology factors into such entrepreneurial activities as engaging in business planning and utilizing creativity and innovation, and how creative innovation, in turn, is achieved and enhanced through an understanding of two different modes of learning: "learning about" and "learning by doing". A successful product introduction depends on an efficient supply chain, a strong brand, and the ability of a manufacturer or provider to differentiate it successfully in the marketplace. New Product and Services Development demonstrates how differentiation, this last critical component, can be secured by the strategic use of technology and by engaging in two key learning methodologies.
Download or read book Experiment Driven Product Development written by Paul Rissen and published by Apress. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving your craft is a key skill for product and user experience professionals working in the digital era. There are many established methods of product development to inspire and focus teams—Sprint, Lean, Agile, Kanban—all of which focus on solutions to customer and business problems. Enter XDPD, or Experiment-Driven Product Development—a new approach that turns the spotlight on questions to be answered, rather than on solutions. Within XDPD, discovery is a mindset, not a project phase. In Experiment-Driven Product Development, author Paul Rissen introduces a philosophy of product development that will hone your skills in discovery, research and learning. By guiding you through a practical, immediately applicable framework, you can learn to ask, and answer, questions which will supercharge your product development, making teams smarter and better at developing products and services that deliver for users and businesses alike. When applying the XDPD framework within your organization, the concept of an experiment—a structured way of asking, and answering, questions—becomes the foundation of almost everything you do, instilling a constant sense of discovery that keeps your team inspired. All types of activities, from data analysis to writing software, are seen through the lens of research. Rather than treating research as a separate task from the rest of product development, this book approaches the entire practice as one of research and continuous discovery. Designing successful experiments takes practice. That’s where Rissen’s years of industry expertise come in. In this book, you are given step-by-step tools to ensure that meaningful, efficient progress is made with each experiment. This approach will prove beneficial to your team, your users, and most importantly, to your product’s lasting success. Experiment-Driven Product Development offers a greater appreciation of the craft of experimentation and helps you adapt it in your own context. In our modern age of innovation, XDPD can put you ahead. Go forth and experiment! What You Will LearnKnow how to approach product development in a leaner, more efficient wayUnderstand where and when experiments can be useful, and how they fit into pre-existing organization environments and processesRealize why you should be thinking about the simplest, useful thing rather than the minimum, viable productDiscover how to break down feature and design ideas into the assumptions and the premises that lie behind themAppreciate the importance of designing your experiments, and the statistical concepts that underpin their successMaster the art of communicating the results of experiments back to stakeholders, and help the results guide what happens next Who This Book is For Professionals working in digital product design and development, user experience, and service design. This book is best suited for those who work on digital products every day and want to adopt better approaches to gaining knowledge about their users, what works, and what does not work.
Download or read book Dimensions of Success in New Product Development written by Angie Craig and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Product Development Process written by Theodore A. Smyrniotopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies written by Budhaditya Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research has studied innovation in emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this paper, we explore the testing routines fundamental to product development in one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the related learning process. The observed testing approach is distinctly different from the comparatively linear and sequential approach adopted by medical device development teams in developed countries like the United States. Further, we suggest that such testing is feasible in India because of the prevailing regulatory flexibility, the cognitive orientation of device development practitioners and the normative orientation of medical professionals.
Download or read book An Exploratory Study of the New Product Development Process Utilized by Selected Consumer Companies in the Canned Goods Food Industry written by George R. Pederson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Product Development written by Marc Annacchino and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the entire process of product development from idea to launch without missing a step!
Download or read book The Fuzzy Front End of Product Development written by Birgit Verworn and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
