Learn directly from the world’s leading product development authority, Dr. Robert G. Cooper, how to accelerate your idea-to-launch new product process and pick the right projects for development. Learn to focus resources, not overload your pipeline, and get there fast! Combine the benefits of Agile-Scrum development with Stage-Gate, then couple with ‘Gates with Teeth’ for powerful results. Attend this Masterclass and receive hands-on implementation guidance, tools, and templates. Plus a free copy of Dr. Cooper’s newest book!
Is this Masterclass right for me? Six questions to ask yourself:
- Do you want to get your products right, but much earlier in the process to avoid redo’s and rework?
- Do you want to accelerate development without sacrificing quality?
- Does your current stage-and-gate system seem cumbersome and unable to deal with today’s customer responsiveness imperative?
- You’ve heard about Agile-Scrum development for software products, and wonder how it works for physical or manufactured new products.
- Your pipeline is overloaded with too many projects – and too small – and you’re spread too thin.
- You want better development projects, resourced correctly, with better results (fast, profitable, and right).
If you answered Yes to 2 or more of these questions, then attending will benefit you right away.
This is the only program of its kind that explains how to apply Agile within a Stage-Gate environment. Discover how Agile enhances and helps overcome the challenges of Stage-Gate, while the structure of Stage-Gate enhances Agile. In two highly practical days, Dr. Cooper will share how leading firms are achieving superb results by moving beyond traditional Stage-Gate to make processes focused, flexible, lean, and responsive to customers. Specifically, he will tell you how to:
- Get the project right by building experimentation and iterations with regular, fast customer validationsinto the development process.
- Leverage Agile-Scrum project management methods to help with dynamic product requirements and rapid strategic pivots (scrums and time-boxed sprints).
- Adapt Agile-Scrum methods for physical products – build Agile into your gating process.
- Understand the different versions of Stage-Gate – Lite, XPress, the risk-based contingency model, and gating for technology platforms – how they’re different and how they work.
- Get your projects resourced properly (dedicated and focused project teams) to enable rapid iterations, time-boxed sprints and scrums.
- Be more adaptive to changing requirements; get to market faster.
- Achieve better focus – fewer but better projects — by using ‘gates with teeth’ and effective portfolio management.
- Remove waste, bureaucracy and speed-killers in your process through lean value stream analysis.
LEARNING APPROACH
This Masterclass draws on Dr. Cooper’s wealth of experience working with the world’s most successful and forward-thinking firms.
- Interactive lecture & discussion sessions, including ample question-and-answer opportunities and Cooper’s famous “hot questions” sessions
- Numerous case studies, illustrations, and practical examples from other companies and countries
- Templates, guidelines and checklists you may share with others back at your organization. Begin implementing right away!
Dr. Robert G. Cooper is one of the most influential innovation thought leaders in the business world today. He pioneered the original research that led to many groundbreaking discoveries including the Stage-Gate(R) Idea-to-Launch process. Now implemented by almost 75% of North American companies, it is considered to be one of the most important discoveries in the field of innovation management. He has spent more than 30 years studying the practices and pitfalls of 3,000+ new product projects in thousands of companies and has assembled the world’s most comprehensive research on the topic. His presentations and practical consulting advice have been widely applauded by corporate and business event audiences throughout the world making him one of the most sought-after speakers.