Product Development and Project Risk Management Site Directory

This is a directory to every page on this site (except this page and the home page)

What We Do

• Our popular book on shrinking product development cycle time
• Build flexibility into your development approach to deal non-disruptively with change
• Where the product development process fits into fast, effective development
• Strengths and pitfalls of a stage gate product development process
• Looking at product development from a project management perspective
• Improving development through effective project risk management
• Is cycle-time reduction always the way to go?
• The role of computerized product development tools
• Get an inside view of our product development consulting and training through our Quick Tip series

How We Do It

• Overview of our product development services, including comparisons and combinations
• Our results-oriented approach to product development excellence
• Building an enduring product development capability
• How we view the role of a product development consultant

Where We Do It

• Industries served and geographic coverage of our product development and project risk management services
• Office location

Why We Do It

• Avoiding the product development "best practices" trap
• Warning you of enticing time to market pitfalls
• Building an enduring product development capability
• Enhancing the flexibility of your system to handle those inevitable changes

Who We Are

• Preston Smith
• Donald (Don) Reinertsen (a colleague operating independently of New Product Dynamics)
• Interviews that capture Preston's views on product development and project risk management

Resources To Get You Started

• Overview of all publications on product development and project risk management
• Our popular, concise e-newsletter for product development managers, the Quick Tip (complete archives and subscription information)
• Over 30 published product development articles available for download
• The cycle time reduction classic, Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules New Tools
• The hands-on guide to project risk management, Proactive Risk Management: Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development
• Chapters on time to market contributed to handbooks
• Reviews of books on product development and project risk management
• Columns on key risk management and product development topics contributed to the Product Development Best Practices Report
• Interviews on product development topics
• Links to product development organizations and listservers

Miscellaneous

• Answers to a few frequently asked questions
• Contact information for New Product Dynamics
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