A working product development process is very important to have if you want to be successful delivering product within time, budget and with the right quality. Your process needs to be more or less tailor-made for your own organization, however I will write about some very important building blocks today and in the coming weeks try to give more details into all building blocks. The process must consist of at least 3 parts:
- An overall business process (with business tollgates)
- A project execution model with: milestones, execution methodology (possibly an agile model), checklists, etc.
- A feedback loop process to always improve the above
Why an overall business process?
Today every one talks about using scrum and being agile. However it is not enough to just send a few people to a Scrum Master course and tell your developers to work with scrum. I really like scrum and it is a very good execution methodology but it does not really support the business side of things. Hence you also need to provide a business tollgate process on top of your project execution model to make sure you use the companies development resources in the best way producing customer and business value. I see the need for a minimum of 4 business tollgates.
- To start a pre-study/design phase
- To start execution
- Release of the products to customers
- Ending the products life
Each business tollgates need to have in-put from product management on the business case and market, from development on resources, quality and project status etc.
This process should be supported by a steering group with the right management people attending for decisions. In a company smaller than 200-300 people it can often be the companies normal management team + the head of projects / program management.
More about the project execution model soon….
Kind regards
Anders
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