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How to decrease the paperwork you loathe in product development
- August 24, 2015
- Process
- By expds2m
“Too much paperwork!” is the one of the most common and most passionate complaints we hear from our clients. The project team loathes creating it and the decision-makers loathe reading it. They don’t see the value. Yet typical product development processes requires voluminous documentation. Why so much paperwork? 1st…to make sure nothing is overlooked, the…
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Hurry Up and Wait – Pitfalls of the Phased and Gated Process
- August 5, 2015
- Process
- By expds2m
A phased-and-gated system creates multiple batches that slows down the overall speed of a product development project. The group of phased activities is a batch that has to be completed in order to produce a set of deliverables, which is another batch for review and decision at a gate. Reinertsen indicates the problem is that…
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The Myth of Doubling Down
It is tempting, when witnessing a failure of product development, to blame the people. Why? Because the company has invested substantial resources installing a product development process that follows the best practices of the day. They probably also installed an expensive software tool that promised to streamline the process. On top of that, they trained…
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