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Keynote Presentations
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Using Metrics to Compete for Scarce Resources |
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Don Reinertsen
President
Reinertsen Associates
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Many companies think of metrics primarily as a control tool, a
tool for ensuring that projects conform to requirements, budgets
and schedules. However, certain metrics play another role in a
world where resources are constrained. By communicating project
economics to management they can aid management in allocating
its scarce financial resources. When developers fail to use
metrics in this way they are at a great disadvantage when
competing for scarce resources. Don Reinertsen will discuss the
role of these important metrics and give examples of the
decisions they support.
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Maximizing the Value of Your New Product Portfolio: Metrics,
Methods and Scorecards |
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Dr. Robert G. Cooper
CEO
Product Development Institute
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Two
ingredients must be in place to maximize the value of your
development portfolio. The first is data integrity. The second
key is applying the right tools, metrics, scorecards and metrics
to gauge the value of your projects and portfolio. In his talk,
Dr. Cooper outlines various methods to maximize the value of
your development portfolio, and provides proven metrics for
gauging the value of each development project. An effective
scorecard for use in portfolio review or gate decisions sessions
is highlighted. And techniques for rating and ranking projects
to yield project priorities – a prioritized or rank-ordered list
of active projects – are described.
But all the
sophisticated methods, metrics and scorecards are worthless
unless there is data integrity. In his talk, Cooper also
identifies the areas where new product forecasts and estimates
are the weakest, and shows how to improve the quality of the
data – how to build in certain best practice activities into
your Stage-GateTM process to heighten the reliability
of your portfolio information.
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