Projects at Warp-Speed with QRPD

My impression of the book was, if I had gotten it when I started as a new project manager at Sun Microsystems, I would have avoided making a lot of mistakes, gotten organized faster, kept better control of my team and the project and overall been successful a whole lot quicker. There's a lot of good, useful info here neatly packaged in one place. Good desk reference, kept me from buying a bunch of project management books. Easily readable and digestible, with a sense of fun, believe it or not.

After reading this book, I believe that it can contribute to getting you promoted, save your job, and even save your company. I have read the book, and have taken the two-day classes, and this project management approach is the best that I have seen in over 30 years in the business. The book is very complete, dealing with the team, the technology, and the project in a practical yet contagious way. PART 1 (Blitzkrieg) sets the stage as to why a new paradign is needed and provides some "killer" tools such as Late Cost per Week, Risk Assessment, and the Vision process to align the whole team and customers.PART 2 (Techniques) provides over 150 tools to accelerate projects, with each technique explained on about one page with examples. You will recognize many of them, but some are quite unique and powerful. PART 3 (Project Leader and Team)tells you all you need to know about selecting, managing, and leading the cross-functional team. PART 4 (Flow) deals with the generic 13 steps of product development flow with practical advice on negotiating features, schedule, project cost, and risks with the whole cross-functional team. this avoids the inevitable engineering-marketing battles, for example. Tradeoff tables are introduced as a way to progress through the feasibility phase in a successful manner.PART 5 (DIRFT) Doing It Right the First Time helps you avoid the deadly late changes that are so costly, and spells out the 7 Deadly Sins that prevent implementing rapid product development within a company. This book can apply to any technical project, whether it is in integrated circuits, software, systems, or hardware. There are many real-world case studies, exercises with answers, and templates to aid in implementing this in your company. I believe that it could significantly accelerate your projects thereby postively impacting you and your company.

After reading this book, I believe that it can contribute to getting you promoted, save your job, and even save your company. I have read the book, and have taken the two-day classes, and this project management approach is the best that I have seen in over 30 years in the business. The book is very complete, dealing with the team, the technology, and the project in a practical yet contagious way. PART 1 (Blitzkrieg) sets the stage as to why a new paradign is needed and provides some "killer" tools such as Late Cost per Week, Risk Assessment, and the Vision process to align the whole team and customers.PART 2 (Techniques) provides over 150 tools to accelerate projects, with each technique explained on about one page with examples. You will recognize many of them, but some are quite unique and powerful. PART 3 (Project Leader and Team) tells you all you need to know about selecting, managing, and leading the cross-functional team. PART 4 (Flow) deals with the generic 13 steps of product development flow with practical advice on negotiating features, schedule, project cost, and risks with the whole cross-functional team. this avoids the inevitable engineering-marketing battles, for example. Tradeoff tables are introduced as a way to progress through the feasibility phase in a successful manner.PART 5 (DIRFT) Doing It Right the First Time helps you avoid the deadly late changes that are so costly, and spells out the 7 Deadly Sins that prevent implementing rapid product development within a company. This book can apply to any technical project, whether it is in integrated circuits, software, systems, or hardware. There are many real-world case studies, exercises with answers, and templates to aid in implementing this within your company. I believe that it could significantly accelerate your projects thereby postively impacting you and your company.

Excellent information, will teach you the complete product development process with a common sense approach with lots of good and bad examples. These guys know there stuff!PBF