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How to apply lean principles to
pipeline management – quantify the cost of queues, decrease
batch sizes and better manage flow
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About techniques to balance your
portfolio – weighing the level of complexity with resource
availability
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Strategies, techniques, and
approaches to dynamically “off-load” and “on-load” the pipeline
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What tools are most effective for
prioritizing projects in the portfolio – what are their
limitations?
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To determine the best data points
for decision making – simplify, simplify, simplify
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How to fit portfolio management
into your NPD process and learn to set product priorities that
align with strategy and growth goals
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To engage strategic roadmaps to
reduce the gap between the technologies that marketing wants and
what engineering can deliver
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About tools to prioritize
technology projects to ensure that resources get allocated to
projects that meet business needs/strategy
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How to successfully integrate
Stage-GateÒ
and CCPM to achieve effective portfolio, resource and project
management
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How variations in task time,
resource utilization levels and prioritization schemes interact
to reode TTM and decrease productivity levels
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How to manage the interface
between strategic roadmaps and pipeline and portfolio management
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About ways integrate innovation
strategy, portfolio management process and new product
development process into one seamless process
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How to align the strategic
direction of the portfolio with product and technology roadmaps
