Agile & Lean

An Executive’s Action Plan for Enterprise Agile Transformation & Sustainment.

How do you prepare for Enterprise Agile? What techniques should you use to ensure that you become and remain a truly Agile enterprise?

Strategic planning

The Power of Integrated Roadmaps

It is well documented that developing and adhering to a long-term strategy is critical to success. But of those companies that do have a long [...]

Strategic planning

What is a strategic roadmap & Why do you need one?

Strategic roadmaps can, among other uses, be a great tool to facilitate communication and alignment around your strategic plan. By offering [...]

Portfolio Management

3 Key Learnings from the 2019 CHI Executive Decision Making Conference in Philadelphia

Data, real-time optimization, and artificial intelligence take center stage

Lean & Agile

Agile-Stage-Gate Hybrids: Combining the Best of Both Systems for Accelerated New-Product Development

The idea of combining Agile and Stage-Gate has been around for quite a few years now, but what have been the actual results for companies which [...]

Agile & Lean

Lean Product Development: Resource management vs. Flow efficiency

In New Product Development, the ability to deliver projects quickly and on budget is critical to success. Which is why inaccurate estimates [...]

Strategic planning

Using Landscape Maps to promote innovation

Landscape maps – like their cousin integrated roadmaps – help us plan and act in unfamiliar areas by providing information to help us make [...]

Portfolio Management

Dr Michael Menke on portfolio management and the impact of the PPM Accelerate Benchmark

Ongoing since 2011, the Menke PPM Accelerate Benchmarking Study has been examining high-performing R&D organizations to understand which practices [...]

Portfolio Management

Building an Effective Enterprise Portfolio Management Process

When considering possible improvements to the management of the R&D portfolio, three questions are often raised: How can we improve innovation [...]

Product Development & Lifecycle

More insights by Dr Robert Cooper on Innovation and the Future of Stage-Gate

If you enjoyed our video of Dr Robert Cooper on Innovation and the Future of Stage-Gate, then watch the rest of the interview where he discusses [...]

Product Development & Lifecycle

Dr Robert Cooper on Innovation and the Future of Stage-Gate

We sat down with Dr Cooper last October to ask him about his take on product innovation's issues such as mitigating risks in new product development [...]

Product Development & Lifecycle

Brad Barbera on keeping innovation simple

Brad Barbera, Chief Innovation Strategist and Idea Storyboarder at Pi Innovation LLC, discusses how organizations can keep innovation simple [...]

Project Management

When Projects Fail: Managing Innovation Teams

We invited Brad Barbera, Founder and Principal at Pi Innovation LLC and Editor-in-Chief of the Product Development and Management Association [...]

Agile & Lean

Scaling Agile: How to measure progress? with Johanna Rothman

Why is velocity such a problematic measure of progress? What are the classic mistakes people make when thinking about Agile Program metrics? [...]

Portfolio Management

Portfolio management: What innovative SMEs and large enterprises can learn from each other

In this video, Planisware Center for Excellence thought leader Mike Wiebe of M.J. & Associates explains some of these challenges and what SMEs [...]

Portfolio Management

Johanna Dwyer on the challenges of research organizations

R&D-focused organizations are up against significant challenges when selecting the right mix of projects to push forward. Johanna Dwyer discusses [...]

Product Development & Lifecycle

Webinar: Measuring Product Development Productivity and Performance

Which are the most commonly used metrics for measuring product development performance? What role does R&D strategy play in selecting the appropriate [...]

Agile & Lean

Interview: Scaling Agile with Johanna Rothman

Today, Agile methodologies are commonly used for projects, especially in technology/IT. But what about applying them at a program/enterprise [...]

Product Development & Lifecycle

R&D Best Practices: A Study of Top Performers

Which PPM Best Practices give leading R&D organizations a competitive advantage? Michael Menke's ongoing PPM Accelerate Benchmark study was [...]

Product Development & Lifecycle

Stage-Gate Success: Mitigating NPD Risk via Predictability

At our Getting Innovation to Summit event, Dr. Ken Huskins and Dr. Klaus Fink shared a case study in which an organization was able to transform [...]

Strategic planning

A Primer for Integrated Roadmapping: An Interview with Ken Huskins

Integrated Roadmapping is often overlooked as a tool for excellence at new product development, yet is so incredibly important to bridge innovation [...]

Portfolio Management

Critical Best Practices for R&D Portfolio Management, Portfolio selection, Strategic alignment,

Which PPM Best Practices give leading R&D organizations a competitive advantage? In 2011 Michael Menke initiated an ongoing PPM Accelerate [...]

Portfolio Management

Dr. Richard Bayney on Portfolio Optimization

Despite evidence of the superior returns offered by Portfolio Optimization, this technique is still under-utilized by the R&D community. In [...]