agility in hardware development
Designing sustainable product development
The development of physical products is under increasing pressure: shorter innovation cycles, increasing complexity and the need to react quickly to customer requirements demand a new way of thinking in product development. Sustainable product development means using tried and tested success patterns to enable development teams to make progress visible, learn systematically and arrive at better solutions more quickly - especially when several teams are working on a product. The methodical further development of the product development process lays the foundation for this.
Success patterns for sustainable product development
A sustainable product development process uses selected principles from lean development, modern working methods and collaboration in cross-functional teams to optimize the High Performing Organization of organizations systematically. The decisive factor here is not the adoption of arbitrary methods, but the targeted selection of those patterns that offer the greatest leverage in the specific corporate context. These can be, for example, shorter development cycles, early integration of product parts or greater modularization.
From symptoms to implementation: targeted control of development
Many organizations recognize symptoms such as:
- Sluggish integration
- delayed market launches
- or a lack of transparency about the status of development.
Sustainable product development begins with systematically reflecting on these symptoms - and deriving focused measures from them. In workshops with management teams, concrete action plans are developed for initial implementation steps in your own product development process.
Scalable collaboration across team boundaries
Collaboration is a critical success factor, especially for products involving several teams. Sustainable product development requires mechanisms for coordination, integration and continuous feedback. Teams along the value stream that have a variety of skills - also often called cross-functional teams, clear timings and a common understanding of roles and interfaces create the framework for successful product development - even across team and departmental boundaries.
From the idea to a successful product launch
A central component of sustainable development is the rapid utilization of ideas - through continuous product integration and regular increments. Successful product development is achieved when early feedback from the user and market environment is systematically incorporated into the next development phases. This not only makes progress visible, but also measurably accelerates the product launch.
Shaping sustainability in concrete terms - with a PEP workshop
A compact initial PEP workshop can be a first step towards sustainable product development. Together with the management team, we identify current problems in the current product development process and define specific implementation steps for your own organization. The result: clarity about the next steps, a common understanding within the management team and a targeted starting point for further development.
We would be happy to conduct a customized workshop with your team. Get in touch with us.
Checkup: Is your product development fit for the future?
Our check-up helps you to identify the relevant levers for your organization in order to make your product development future-proof and sustainable and to derive concrete next steps from this.
Do you recognize these symptoms?
- Development projects take a long time - despite high capacity utilization
- Many topics run in parallel, but few are actually completed
- Dependencies regularly slow down progress
- Feedback comes late - learning happens too slowly
- Teams work hard - but the ability to deliver does not improve noticeably
If you find yourself in this situation, this check-up is just the thing for you.
Aims of the check-up
In our checkup you will learn:
- Clarity on where you currently stand in your product development
- Identification of the few levers with the greatest impact
- Derivation of concrete, feasible next steps
- Shared understanding of how you can specifically improve your delivery capability
This is how our check-up works
- Understanding the status quo: the status quo analysis gives you a brief assessment of your current situation and an understanding of your specific challenges in development and cooperation.
- Joint working session: In a joint working session with all relevant stakeholders and a wibas consultant, the key bottlenecks and patterns are worked out and 2-3 levers with the greatest impact for your context are identified. Subsequently, concrete starting points for improvement are developed.
- Preparation of the results: The findings obtained are summarized in a structured manner and prioritized levers and fields of action are clearly presented;
- Final meeting: In a final meeting, we take a joint look at the results, clarify the next steps and sharpen the implementation direction for your organization.
Total duration: approx. half a day + follow-up
Investment: 499€ (plus VAT)
Who is the check-up for?
- Managers in development & production
- Responsible for product development / PEP
- Project and program managers in hardware contexts
- Organizations that want to improve their time-to-market and delivery capability
Arrange your check-up on a date of your choice. We look forward to your call.
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Your contact for agility in hardware development:
Malte Foegen
