Our clients manage the development and rollout  of complex product systems. We provide them with methods and insights needed to capture distributed scope, navigate dependencies, and re-architect their initiatives for significant change and improved performance. With these advanced Project Design methods and tools, they build great products with plans linked to strategy, realistic schedules, accurate cost estimates, and better teaming.

To hear first-hand how a Project Design capability might be demonstrated and transferred to you and your organization, please contact us at:

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GPD is pleased to have been invited to present to PMI's Innovation and New Product Development Community of Practice (PMI INPDCOP).  The event -- a global webinar on January 17th, 2012 -- can be accessed through the PMI INPDCOP website (to visit click here).

To learn more about how Project Design improves complex product development, please browse our site and take a look at the following representative white papers.

All too often, the "hoped for" business target shown by the lower left green circle simply isn't realistic--the result instead is an expensive and longer result (the upper right green circle.) Traditional project management ignores coordination costs, rework risks, and latencies from distributed decisions and time zones.

GPD's TeamPort weighs these real world complexity factors. Through intuitive visual modeling and simulation teams estimate likely performance given as-is project architecture and behavior (large gray circle).

Confronting realistic estimates triggers a rapid process by a cross functional team (CFT) to shape an optimized plan (blue circle) with feasible and accurate estimates. Organizations can then rapidly generate many tradeoffs scenarios that speed up the project (orange circle, "Option 1") and/ or reduce its cost (orange circle, "Option 2").

For complex product development this CFT collaborative  exercise can be completed in hours to days, rather than weeks or months.