Innovate Products Faster: Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development By John Carter
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We are adverse to wading through hundreds of pages of text to mine out the few nuggets of needed information This book concisely portrays the forty best practices that can be applied to predicting and then managing a project to successful conclusion It is written and organized as a reference guide for readers to quickly identify specific areas of interest and includes completed examples of each practice as a head start We have tried and tested each of these tools with managers from small startups to Fortune 500 companies over 50 clients and have applied our line management experience in the capacity of CTO.
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Such an interesting reading for those interested in breaking into Product Management It lists techniques and practices related to the idealization of a new product or idea as well as those related to project execution and control It can be read by chapters or sections depending on what the product project manager needs at the moment 9781470002909 The prevailing view of innovation is wrong The traditional view of product development is that there is a fundamental dilemma between innovation and time to market You can have one or the other but not both However this is not a physical law like Newton s law or the second law of thermodynamics but rather a short sighted view of management that likes to use the excuse one or the other but NOT BOTH We wrote this book to demonstrate that companies can have both innovation and speed It requires mastery of tools and methodologies that will support managers in making better decisions faster We re not talking about heavy processes or systems that require large IT installations We re talking about tools that can be quickly understood and implemented They are tactically straightforward but strategically powerful They are battle tested in over 50 of our client engagements with measurable successful outcomes And they can be applied across different industries and a wide range of organizations from start ups to Fortune 100 companies And to address the need to get useful information in a condensed straightforward manner we ve designed the book into bite sized chapters You don t need to read the entire book to realize its value It s organized so the reader can quickly identify the tools they need to solve their biggest problems first Using a novel graphical format Innovate Products Faster provides a fresh perspective on how managers can deliver innovative programs In this world where we are overwhelmed by a high volume of information have very limited time and hold expectations of getting answers instantly VP of Development and Program Management working for iconic brands such as Apple and Bose Each best practice uses elegant graphics to illustrate the application of simple tools such as iPad Apps and Microsoft Excel These downloadable apps are easy to customize pre filled templates which are available with the purchase of the book The existing competition in project management or product development typically long obsolete and mainly text lacks many of these key differentiators Easy to navigate short and focused chapters Rich graphical tools for solving problems Downloadable software templates apps Modern methodologies Web 2. Kindle innovate products faster than others 0 offshoring Agile etc John Carter is a published author in Harvard Business Review Getting It New Roles for Senior Executives November 1995 and is republished in The Work of Teams by Jon R Katzenback Harvard Business Review Press He is on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic CRUS and was formerly Chief Engineer of Bose Jeanne Bradford has led global organizations to deliver compelling products and technologies for some of the industry s most successful companies including Apple Cisco and AOL Innovate Products Faster Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development.