A Real-Story using an funny but expressive plane metaphor. These slides will remind you many projects and support you in avoiding common pitfalls in product development projects. You think that detailed task management will save you, this is not what this story tells. You'd better look at Scope management, Stakeholder Management, Communications Management and Procurement Management.

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT
HOW DO PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS
REALLY WORK?

2. THE PLANE METAPHOR
A plane should allow many people to go to a flexible
destination, at fast speed, in a cost efficient manner.
A revolution in transportation: flying instead of driving
Next Generation
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3. THE PRODUCT
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4. NEW PRODUCT VISION
CURRENT OFFERING VISION
Best for short distance Best for long distance
Next Generation
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5. SCOPE & EXPRESSION OF
NEEDS
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MUST BE EXTREMELY FAST AND
LONG-RANGE
MUST TRANSPORT EVERYTHING
AND EVERYONE
REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS

6. RESOURCES
PROJECT BUDGET
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7. RESOURCES
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AVAILABLE TEAM

8. TECHNOLOGY
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9. CONCEPTION
ARCHITECTURE
TARGETED INITIAL
IMPLEMENTATION
Best-effort to answer all needs Best effort to stay in budget & vision
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10. SUPPLIER TECHNOLOGY
SUPPLIER R&D OBJECTIVE SUPPLIER DELIVERY
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11. USE OF SUPPLIED TECHNOLOGY
INGENIOUS FINE-TUNING WORKAROUNDS
Pushing the limits Increasing architecture complexity
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12. FIRST CLIENT
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13. SALE PROCESS
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AS IT WAS SOLD

14. STATUS
AT THE LAUNCH OF SALE PROCESS
IMPLEMENTATION STATUS TEST STATUS
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15. FIRST CLIENT DELIVERY
INITIAL DELIVERY
INITIAL UPGRADE
ATTEMPT
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16. FINALLY, A PARTIAL SUCCESS
(AFTER 2ND UPGRADE)
AVOIDED WORST CASE IT FLEW (SOMEHOW)
And did not look as expected…
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17. INTERNAL PRODUCT PERCEPTION
AFTER FIRST CLIENT
IT DOES NOT MATCH ALL
REQUIREMENTS &
SPECIFICATIONS
IT TARGETS THE MOON
IT DOES TOO MUCH, IT’S TOO
COMPLEX
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18. RECOVERING
AFTER FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT
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19. (RE-)CONVINCING PEOPLE NOW
REQUIRES
LOTS OF FEATURES
HIGH QUALITY
IMMEDIATE
AVAILABILITY
 Improve Eye-Candiness
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20. BUT WHERE ARE WE NOW,
REALLY?
(INITIAL BUDGET CONSUMED)
Budget VisionUseless
NEAR FUTURE FUTURE
Workaround Market Spec.Requ. Out of
scope
PAST
Can grow with market needInitial product visionLimiting impacts of workarounds
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21. STOP PRODUCT OR CONTINUE ?
WILL IT EVER TRANSPORT THAT MANY PEOPLE,
THAT FAST ?
ALREADY AT IT’S MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ?
BETTER IN MANY ASPECTS, BUT NOT ALL !
HAS A LOT OF POTENTIAL…
Best for easy travels, start/stop, step-in/step-out Best for complex travels, over seas & mountains
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CURRENT OFFERING ACHIEVED VISION

22. THE STORY ENDED LIKE THIS:
2 years of project status re-evaluations, trying to define if the
product is a success or not
 Team demotivation
Added ½ year of eye-candiness development
Project deployed into production
 The product is a success, more than expected
 The project is neither a success and neither a failure,
because it delivered late due to many predictable external human
factors…
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23. LESSONS LEARNED
Project Success depend more on Scope and
Stakeholder management than anything else
Communication of the Vision is key to avoid diverging interpretations.
Product Result depends more on Purchase
management than anything else
Purchase management also drastically influence the technical
difficulty of the product development.
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24. WHAT TOOL DO YOU NEED?
Task management alone
will not make
your project a success
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25. NODEWAVE
A NEW CATEGORY OF
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Do You Know About
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26. WE BELIEVE IN
PROFESSIONAL
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
WHY
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27. WE SUPPORT
PROJECT MANAGERS
IN BECOMING
PROJECT CHAMPIONS
HOW
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28. WE’RE BUILDING A GREAT
SOFTWARE FOR
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
PROFESSIONALS
WHAT
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29. NODEWAVE
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30. EASING INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
Integrates
All Areas
Scope
Time
Costs
Quality
HRCom.
Risks
Procurement
Stakeholders
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Information is seamlessly organized and kept consistent and structured.
IMPROVE SUCCESS RATES
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INCREASE SATISFACTION
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