“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
“Implementing Knowledge Based Product Development and Chief Engineer in a Marketing Driven Organization”
Dave Klis - Director of Engineering Operations – The Toro Company
Dave Klis, a cofounder of the Savvy Consortium with Gary Kassen of Eaton Hydraulics and other professional engineering managers. Dave will describe his five year transformation initiative to “let engineers be engineers.” Dave will outline his implementation and timeline for the four “pillars” described by Allen Ward. He will highlight specialized knowledge experts teams that deliver towering engineering competence to improve quality and timely product decisions. He will introduce his version of the chief development engineer system. Dave will highlight an A3 success that applies to engineering organizations required to meet complex government regulations.
Todd Rich Chief Development Engineer – The Toro Company
Todd Rich will profile his design reviews, the gated process and knowledge flow timeline. He will describe his development project admin practices, Obeya space and tools that impact design, project cost and timeline. He will describe the individual contributions of team members. Todd Rich will discuss the key elements of the process, people and tools that delivered “better than expected” results that current development projects are using to build on.
Rich Guertin Chief Development Engineer – The Toro Company
Rich completed a complex product design project that required extensive engineering design knowledge and “lean” practices , eg., clear customer outcomes, team collocation, DFMEA and related knowledge flow tools such as Sharepoint. Todd will profile his design reviews, the gated process and knowledge flow tools such as Sharepoint. He will describe his development project admin practices, Obeya space and tools that impact design, project cost and timeline. He will describe the individual contributions of team members. Todd will discuss list key elements of the process, people and tools that delivered “better than expected” results that current development projects can build on.
Tom Langworthy Chief Development Engineer – The Toro Company
Tom will describe his product development project which at first it was thought there was no market opportunity, but was launched successfully! Tom will describe the product value proposition, the design goals and the design knowledge flow. He will describe the business case timeline events starting with the technical vision, followed by product prototype performance verification that uncovered a set of tacit customer needs. In addition to development process methods and tools used, Tom will describe the impact of key contributions, by each individual on the cross functional team.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.