Product Development Project Management

This course will provide an overall understanding of the application of project management processes to product development projects.  It will emphasize the time-to-market benefits of coordinated project management across the Ten-P product development paradigm.  It will focus on employment of the phase-and-gate methodology that is widely used in successful product development organizations. The course will cover process engineering in support of new product development processes. It will address the organizational implications of a product development focused enterprise.

  Upon completing this course students should be able to: 

• Define effective gate review requirements and criteria.
• Schedule product development project phases that will satisfy gate review requirements.
• Interpret market forces and their implications on Ten-P product development activities.
• Ensure that all Ten-P development program activities are focused and coordinated.
• Design and implement appropriate product development processes.
• Manage the organizational impacts of a product development focused enterprise.
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