NPD Process-in-a-Box™

PD-Trak™ provides an NPD Process-in-a-Box™. This new product development process is based on 270 best practices and the experience of many major companies that the developers have consulted with over a twenty year period. The NPD process which is also embedded in PD-Trak™:

• Utilizes a stage/ phase-gate process
• Incorporates design reviews for verification
• Focuses on understanding customer needs as a basis for product specifications
• Emphasizes establishing and achieving target costs
• Incorporates good project management practices
• Is oriented to compliance with quality management practices
• Emphasizes collaboration of a multi-functional product team

This process can be adopted as-is for a company that needs to overhaul and improve its development process or it can be adapted to the organization's current development process.

NPD Process-in-a-Box™ consists of the following elements:

• A defined set of stages and gates
• A task breakdown and deliverable document associated with each stage or phase. The Task Plan tool provides the primary means to define the process, deliverables and responsibilities and link to the various project documents and tools (see Task Plans for more information on this process definition tool).
• A set of templates for the deliverable documents to support the process along with guidance how to prepare each document
• A set of Product Development Tools to support the development process including Bills of Material, Quality Function Deployment, Target Costing, Design for Assembly, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, and Control Plans
• Two project management planning and statusing alternatives
• Agendas and guidelines for gate reviews and design reviews

The process shown below is the basis for the NPD-Process-in-a-Box. However, this process can be readily modified to your organization's process requirements and terminolgy. Process-in-a-Box is available for new hardware products, software products and service products.

In addition to the process definition, NPD Process-in-a-Box includes the following specific tools and document templates for hardware products (similar tools and document templates are available for software and service products):

1. Project Brief
2. Budget and Schedule Worksheet
3. Financial Justification Worksheet
4. Risk Management Plan
5. Action Item Register
6. Team Member Contact List
7. Task Plans (process description of tasks and deliverables by phase)
8. Advance Quality Plan Template
9. Competitive Assessment Template
10. Customer Support Plan Template
11. Field Assessment Plan Template
12. Market Definition and Forecast Template
13. Market Launch Plan Template
14. Product Definition Template
15. Program Plan Template
16. Voice of the Customer Plan Template
17. Meeting Agenda & Minutes Template
18. Product Roadmap
19. Quality Function Deployment Tool
20. Radar chart Tool
21. Trip Report Template
22. Stakeholder Analysis Tool
23. Gate Review Planner

For further information, please contact us at: info@pd-trak.com or at 925-484-8436.

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