PMI New Product Development SIG
The PMI New Product Development Specific Interest Group (NPDSIG) is a group of project management and product development professionals dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in these fields, and interested in drawing on each other’s expertise to achieve and maintain world-class project management practices within the world of new product development.
The objectives of the SIG are:
- To explore new ideas, applications, and solutions to project management and Product Development challenges.
- To learn how other companies manage Product Development projects and avoid pitfalls.
- To foster communication and networking opportunities.
The NPD SIG offers 3 principal means of communication and collaboration to its members.
- A newsgroup hosted through Yahoo allows for the open discussion of topics of interest and allows practitioners to ask questions, etc. of each other
- A quarterly newsletter, in electronic pdf format
- This website, which will act as a resource repository and centre for communication
Anyone with an interest in PM and NPD is welcome to join this group, and contributions to are welcome. Go to PMI NPD SIG for more details or NPD SIG Newsletters.
My Involvement with NPD SIG: I am the Vice Chair for Communications for NPDSIG for 2009 and look forward to hearing from academecians, practitioners and researchers on their experiences, critiques and emerging thoughts in this field. I am more specifically interested in hearing from you about how you are innovating project management processes to facilitate “faster, better, cheaper” new product development; learning from other fields and cross-pollinating those concepts, ideas and experiences in your own field; learning from practices such as Lean Production, Lean Software Development, Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc.
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