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Note: All workshops
are half-day workshops, you may attend one morning workshop as well
as one afternoon workshop.
Workshop A - AM Half-Day - 8:00a-12:00p
Simplicity by Design
Instructor:
Bart Huthwaite Sr., Huthwaite Group, Institute for
Competitive Design |
Research reveals product
complexity to be the root cause culprit of poor quality, high
costs, and irate customers. Complexity reduction is now the new
battle cry of profit-driven companies.
Yet most product development teams still
find "designing things simple" is not so simple.
This fast-paced workshop gives you and
your design teams techniques, tools, and a step-by-step
methodology for eliminating product complexity and cost without
compromising value and quality.
It is a must for those who manage, lead or
play a key role in helping technical teams deliver successful
projects with limited resources.
Bart Huthwaite, Sr., a world-renowned
expert in product design, will give examples from aerospace,
automotive, and other industries showing how savings of 30-50%
are commonplace.
Take-Aways:
- How to analyze products to quickly
identify complexity targets
- How to reduce cost in a "data poor"
cost environment
- How to use "simplicity thinking" to
improve quality, reduce time-to-market
- A step-by-step "Design for Simplicity"
method for technical teams
Bart Huthwaite, Sr. is
the founder of the Institute for Competitive Design, a leading
edge pioneer in the creation of tools, methods and techniques
for developing better products faster. More than 500 companies
are now using these tools and techniques worldwide. Bart is the
author of numerous books and articles on the process of product
design. |
Workshop B - AM Half-Day - 8:00a-12:00p
Enabling Your Aggressive Portfolio: Using Outside Partners
Effectively
Instructor:
Cinda Voegtli
President, Emprend Inc. and ProjectConnections.com
Past President, IEEE Engineering Management Society |
Is your
organization staffed adequately to execute all the projects on
your list? More and more often, the answer is "No." But before
you draw the line higher than you'd like, consider where you can
use outside development partners to get it all done. But be
ready to set up and manage those partner and supplier
relationships effectively - those extra resources will not
automatically ensure success.
This workshop covers practical techniques
used by the instructor over the last 15 years to launch and
manage joint projects and to recover ones in trouble. The
workshop will include cases and lessons learned from actual
projects. You'll leave with an understanding of how to apply
these techniques to your portfolio of projects and practical
how-to's and checklists you can put to use right away.
You'll learn:
- How to assess, select, and contract with outside partners
to avoid fatal incompatibilities
- How to kick off the project to ensure the partner is
aligned on goals, implementation constraints, and management
of the project.
- How to achieve a level of team
communication that will manage technical risks, uncover
hidden issues, and handle inevitable changes, without
micro-managing the partner
Cinda Voegtli is
Founder and President of ProjectConnections.com. She has over 20
years industry experience, including hardware and software
development, technical and project management, product
development process improvement, and creation of PM
knowledge-sharing systems and programs. Her project experience
spans a variety of industries and applications including data
and telecommunications systems, image processing, IT
applications, networking software, medical device systems, data
warehouses, robotics, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and
PC database applications and game products. For more
information, visit:
http://www.projectconnections.com |
Workshop C - PM Half-Day - 1:00p-5:00p
Real Benefits in Only 60
Days: A Non-Threatening, Incremental Approach to Critical Chain
Project Management Implementation Instructor:
Eugene Kania, Management Consultant, More Capacity
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In this workshop, you will learn a
common-sense Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
implementation approach that is direct, non-threatening and
incremental. It has been successfully applied from small to huge
product development organizations. This approach has not only
appealed to "early adopters," but it has allowed CCPM to "cross
the chasm" so that the vast majority of product development
organizations can use CCPM to deliver quality products very
quickly without sacrificing content or adding development staff.
Some things that you will learn in this workshop are:
- The 2 keys to a successful CCPM implementation.
- The 3 disciplines that you must acquire to be the
best.
- The "old-fashioned" method that is the foundation
for CCPM.
- The role of communication in excellent project
execution.
- How to create urgency and focus without causing
burn-out and frustration.
This workshop will also address one of the most real
and serious conflicts that product development organizations
face today: How do I keep resources focused on NPD projects
while still handling current engineering activities and
responding to customer needs/problems which often require help
from the same resources?
To handle this reality, you will be introduced to the
new and highly effective Pipeline Impedance Index (PII) and the
Constraints Summary Chart (CSC). These two constructs working
together will allow you to identify your NPD constraints in
real-time, break them quickly and to establish a simple and
effective program of continuous improvement for your NPD system.
Since 1997, Eugene Kania has been
an internal management consultant at Lucent Technologies
pioneering the use of Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
in New Product Development (NPD). Mr. Kania, who recently left
Lucent to help other companies gain the benefits of CCPM, is a
certified Jonah from the A.Y. Goldratt Institute (AGI), the
founding organization of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), as
well as an expert in CCPM and other TOC Methods. |
Workshop D - PM Half-Day - 1:00p-5:00p
Implementing a Portfolio
Management System Instructor:
Brian Montgomery, Principal, Montgomery & Associates
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Everybody wants a well-balanced
product development portfolio, but what does it take to get one?
More importantly, what does it take to keep
one?
This workshop focuses on the
various aspects of implementing a portfolio management system,
from designing the system, to project selection and
prioritization methods, to resource allocation and tracking, to
appropriate organization structures (and the resulting
politics!), to the actual successful implementation of the
entire process.
As an active participant, you will
learn how to:
- Tailor a process to fit your
organization
- Design project evaluation and
prioritization schemes
- Account for resources in your
plans
- Wrangle the senior management
"herd" to stay focused
- Implement!
With over 20 years of
experience in marketing, strategic planning, business
development, product management, process reengineering, and
product development, Brian Montgomery has developed products,
strategies and marketing plans that have delivered real growth
in revenues and profits. He has reengineered key processes at
companies such as IBM and LEXIS-NEXIS, serving as the "change
agent" in leading the implementation of the new processes. He
has helped companies serving diverse markets from international
and domestic corporate IT, to the U.S. legal arena, to the
nonprofit sector.
He directed product
marketing and strategy as a senior executive at Blackbaud, the
world’s largest provider of software for nonprofit
organizations. His responsibilities included corporate strategy,
business planning, market research and product marketing. Prior
to joining Blackbaud, Brian was brand manager of the Options By
IBM branded line of PC upgrades and peripherals. Also at IBM,
Brian oversaw implementation of the PC Company’s product
portfolio management process and led the development of the
division’s overall strategy.
Prior to IBM, Brian held
various product development and product management roles at
LEXIS-NEXIS, the world’s leader in electronic research and
publishing. It was there that he first became involved with
process reengineering and product portfolio management. Brian is
a graduate of Capital University and The Ohio State University.
He can be contacted at
[email protected]
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