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Introduction of Innovative Process to condense

Time to Market / New release in New Product Development

Challenge:

Current challenge to my Organization is to Design & Develop New models, handling existing product customer  complaints and Cost Savings on existing products are nightmare with reasonable team size.

Multiple projects from external customers like Marketing for New model requirements, Service department for  customer complaint and Cost Excellence for Savings on existing projects and own Product Development team for  product improvement. All the projects arrowing to product development with almost same time-line.

There is a clear confusion within the team members in the department and all the members are keep working and  none of the releases were having success in terms of Quality and Delivery.

All the team members were demotivated and Time to Market was high and lost their presence in the Market.

Selection:

Story telling is the best tool matches for my organization. This tool replicates the current issues faced in my  organization as studied in The Good Kitchen Story. The challenge was to study the current scenario of the  organization, data collection, brainstorming & feedback post implementation, in fact to turn around the current  situation to totally new situation with same employee.

PRODUCT

DEVELOPEMNT

Marketing

Service

Cost Excellence

Tech. Projects

RELEASES WITH OUT  MEETING TIMELINE &

QUALITY

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Application:

Objective was to exercise a new innovative process to increase the employee morale and reduce the releases with  good quality.

Survey was done with the team members. Data were collated and analyzed with top executive team. Brainstorm  was done and a Task Force team was formed to come out the above issues in total and to increase the moral of  the team members and to improve in the Market.

Task Force team presented multiple proposals to top executive with pros and cons and finally one concept was  frozen.

Final proposal was demonstrated to all team members and made each and every team members across the  Organization aware of the concept.

New release process was established as below and concept was piloted within the organization. All the finalized  projects were further classified with Category A, B & C based on their nature of Complexity and release time line  will depends on the complexity. Guidelines were provided to understand the process and for execution.

Project

Project

Project

Project

Marketing

Finalized project based on agreed Priority for release

Service

Cost Excellence

Tech. Projects

Check points for Adequacy of Inputs, Output  requirements and Agreement with time line.

PROJECT HOPPER

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Weekly scheduled meeting conducted by the Task Force team. Project prioritization done and communicated  online to all team members. Entire organization FOCUS done on the finalized projects and one project at a time  in each Category were process and releases were ensured smoothly by meeting Quality and Delivery with  Optimized resources.

Feedback from Product Development team members and from other department post implementation of the  new process was greeted. Presence in the Market condition was improved year over year.

Insight & Approach:

The insight was very interesting while implementation within the organization. Employee were resist to accept  the change / new way of working / new process. After demonstration and hands on training and further  clarification of FAQ, they were convincing on the new process.

Clear transparency, same level of priority across the organization and FOCUS were the insight of the process.

Same process can be followed for any type of projects like Category A, B & C with any level of Complexity.

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