Pre-Conference Workshops
Monday, October
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"Cutting-edge tools backed by benchmarking in top-quality
organizations which is sure to help me deliver industry
changing products."
Richard Sayers,
Director, Development Engineering, GoJo Industries
WORKSHOP A
Full Day Session
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Developing Metrics Portfolios: Defining and Selecting Key
Measures for Product Development Performance |
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This highly interactive
workshop will take you through a step-by-step process of
developing a critical set of R&D/Product Development metrics for
your organization.
You will identify key measures to assess: Overall/Corporate
R&D Performance, Project Performance, Functional Performance and
Improvement Initiative Performance. To get you started, Mr.
Goldense will provide current survey data to describe the
measures most frequently used by industry as well as the
sizes/ranges of sets of metrics used to monitor and guide
performance.
Workshop Deliverables:
- You will learn how to select metrics that can measure both
a specific performance and can be synthesized to measure
overall performance
- You will be able to identify 3 – 10 value added metrics
for each of the 4 key performance areas outline above; from
these metrics, you will determine which 6 – 10 metrics will
comprise your "top level" set of metrics for R&D and/or
Product Development
- Strategies for implementing metrics systems:
advantages/disadvantages
WORKSHOP B
AM Half-Day Session
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Metrics for Managing Dispersed Teams / Partners / Suppliers |
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Project leaders
live in a tough environment. Not only must they deliver on the
traditional expectations of "on time", "on budget" and "meet
performance standards", they must do so in light of additional
complexities such as outsourced partners and dispersed project
teams. While the former items have a myriad of metrics to gauge
progress and status, the latter items have traditionally been
managed less formally. Anyone who has led a project team knows
that it’s often the "softer-side" issues that de-rail a project.
Items such as miscommunication (or non-communication),
conflicting goals, and inter-personal issues can easily slow a
team down, or worse, lead to ultimate failure. A leader needs
tools to help keep a team on track, not a rigid set of
measurements that will bog the team down in tracking and
paperwork.
This workshop will
provide you with tools to manage these less tangible issues.
Predictive metrics will enable a project leader to identify
problems and provide remedies before it is too late.
In this interactive
workshop, you will learn the following:
What should be
measured? At what frequency?
Metrics to avoid
How to set
parameters to know when to intercede in a proactive fashion
Daily techniques
to keep a dispersed team on track
Metrics as
motivational tools
This interactive
workshop will include case studies, personal experiences and in
class discussions.
WORKSHOP C
PM Half-Day Session
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Creating and Executing a Strategic Scorecard |
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This workshop will
use a 9-Step process to create and execute a Balanced Scorecard
that links an organization’s strategy to the actions required
for its successful implementation. This process differs from
others in three important ways:
- It uses targeted stakeholder
requirements as the link between strategy and internal
process improvements, which provide the basis for Scorecard
metrics,
- It quantifies the linkage between
strategy and improvement to yield a rank ordering of
candidate metrics that can be used to limit the number of
scorecard metrics, and
- It operates closed-loop to assure
continuous refinement and learning.
The workshop will provide rigorous
framework that can be adapted to each organization’s current
scorecard maturity and capacity, while assuring that a roadmap
exists that will get them to their overall objective in the
shortest possible time.
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