“MANAGING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN 2009"
Thursday December 17, 2009 - Minneapolis
Savvy is a consortium of product development engineering leaders. Savvy offers a timely symposium for product development engineering leaders to address the questions:
How are product development engineering leaders getting their arms around this economic uncertainty? What tools are they implementing? What initiatives do they have underway to:
1. Implement product cost reductions for long-term financial viability.
2. Eliminate waste in order to do meet schedules with fewer resources and constrained budgets.
3. Continuously engage technical knowledge workers to improve their performance quality.
4. Ensure continued flow in the product development pipeline.
5. Implement “Knowledge based” lean product development.
This is a “must attend” symposium for individuals who do want to benchmark the initiatives of others. Leaders know that they cannot engage their people, projects and processes in isolation given the uncertainty.
Plan to get answers and implement useful knowledge about how others address changing management expectations, customer value expectations and simultaneously implement change.
The symposium content will draw on the results of the Savvy Chicago symposium in March.
Savvy Symposium
Thursday December 17, 2009 2:30-5:00 PM
Symposium Cost: $40.00
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Lean Product Development Conference VII
“Knowledge Wins - Chief Engineer Leads”
October 7-8, 2009 Minneapolis
“Knowledge Wins - Chief Engineer Leads”
October 7-8, 2009 Minneapolis
“Transforming the ’Unplanned’ Engineering Request Practices to Achieve Level Process Flow”
Judd Clark - Principal Engineer- Altec Industries
Creating a leveled product design engineering process flow system is a “back to basics” requirement and key principle for lean product development organizations - (Morgan/Liker). “Unplanned” design engineering requests were a problem at Altec, designers and manufacturers of equipment for electric utility, telecommunications and contractor markets. Altec decided to analyze the unplanned request practices that overloaded the pipeline in order to initiate solutions. Judd Clark will describe tools such as “cost of delay estimate” thinking/practice, visual project management tools, and “value based” prioritization practices. Judd will describe how these tools changed the practices for managing large numbers of product engineering requests of various sizes, scopes and complexity. Judd will describe this system implementation, its timeline and the improved schedules, pipeline capacity, project costs, product quality and increases in productivity.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.