Checklist for Project Tune Up Services

The checklist below lists a number of tell-tale signs that a new product development process is in need of improvement.

Is your answer yes to any of these Product Development Project performance limiting symptoms?

1. Do you feel uncertain of the real status of New Product Development (NPD) projects in progress because you find out that your schedule has slipped or is late only at major milestones? (Y/N?) ___

2. Are your project milestones slipping each weekly review with no end in sight? (Y/N ?) _____

3. Do your NPD projects get bogged down in getting started because scarce engineering and design resources aren't available or because they lack sufficient definition?
(Y/N ?) ______

4. Do you experience lots of delay in some of your NPD projects because critical engineering and design resources are constantly being pulled off for emergency situations elsewhere? (Y/N ?) ______


5. Do new, high risk, tasks show up late in your NPD projects, instead of early enough to do something about them? (Y/N ?) ______

6. Do you have a good engineering development product model designed, but find that it can't be built in production? (Y/N ?) ______

7. Are far more NPD products returning from the customer than were anticipated? (Y/N ?) ______

8. Are NPD Production Costs far higher than originally predicted? (Y/N ?) ______

9. Are important Customer Desired Features left out of newly introduced products? (Y/N ?) ______

10. Are your New Products frequently coming out late relative to your competitors? (Y/N ?) ______

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