Audience: Project managers, project portfolio managers, PMO directors, project leaders and program managers.

Learning objectives:

Reducing cycle time through cross-functional interaction and collaboration

• Adapting your process and project management (PM) style to different kinds of new product development (NPD) projects
• Identifying and developing your competencies in NPD
• Recognizing and using selected NPD metrics – advantages and drawbacks
• Capturing and specifying customer requirements– spoken and unspoken
• Applying "agile project management" principles and tools, their "fit" with environments dominated by technological change and uncertainty
• Running a fact-based "gating meeting" with senior management; applying the principles and practices of product portfolio management
• Recognizing the relationship of the "fuzzy front end" and the post-launch lifecycle with the product development process