Product Development Metrics Handbook
48 pages, softcover
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This special booklet contains
exclusive case studies, survey results and expert commentaries compiled from the award
winning newsletter, Product Development Best Practices Report.
Using case examples, survey
data, and commentary by leading experts such as Don Reinertsen, Brad Goldense,
Chris Meyer and others, this unique publication will answer the following
questions:
What types of things are
important to measure and why?
How should one use metrics
to gain speed? To increase profitability?
What are the hidden dangers
and potential pitfalls of any metrics program?
What metrics are used by
industry leaders?
A perfect tool for sharing
with colleagues and team members to drive a common understanding and approach to your
metrics planning and implementation.
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Metrics Handbook Table of Contents
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Excerpts
from the Metrics Handbook:
"Metrics alone are useless. A
metric is a piece of a control system. The selection of a metric is a crucial decision in
the design of such a system."
"...we have all been deeply
indoctrinated to believe that variability is the business equivalent of the ebola
virus..."
"We have too many measures in
our organizations. If you have any measure that does not lead to action, trash it."
"How many times, in your
firm, do people do counterproductive things because they’re trying to make their
numbers?"
"‘Percent budget
spent’ on R&D does not really establish a linkage to strategy."
"How new products get out of
the gate at launch is essential to recovering investments and breaking even quickly."
"Product development
measurement systems are where manufacturing measurement systems were in the early
1980s."
"...we expect to see a shift
in product development metrics from measuring ‘what happened?’ to predicting
what ‘will happen.’"
"Metrics are now taking their
place alongside other actively pursued topics such as VOC, Product Definition, and Teams,
to name a few."
"We use measurement to help
the business decision making process, not to perform it."
"When somebody says, "I
need to have a measurement system," they are already on the wrong track. They usually
have a management system problem for which measurements are the symptom." |
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