The right product development team is much greater than the sum of its individual team members. Forming teams for complex product development involves effective leadership, cross-functional contributions and optimized team structure for the project.
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Some product teams assume invention can be tackled during the “development” phase. This is a serious mistake. Trying to unravel difficult technical problems during development or even later after the product is released can be very expensive.
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Phase Zero is a period of understanding your customer needs, then defining your product pathway and completing the invention, exploration, and discovery that outlines the parameters of your product. These three concepts are key to setting the stage for successful product development.
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Or the 5 Types of Knowledge needed for successful Medical Device development Developing innovative new products is hard but developing innovative new medical devices is even harder. That’s because while both involve a great deal of knowledge, medical device development requires even more knowledge and across a broader range of domains. Some engineers assume
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Writing and managing requirements for new product development is challenging and multi-faceted. Tips to help your team on the right path to good requirements.
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(or “achieving compliance without bringing everything to a crawl”) Creating a quality system is fundamental for a medical startup because 1) it’s the law, and 2) it ensures a safe, reliable product. While a good quality system encompasses best practices at a company and makes the most of each employee’s work, a bad one hinders
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Agile Design Controls Part 2 Webinar: Dynamic Risk Management for SW-Intensive Medical Devices This webinar describes a dynamic approach to managing risk analysis and risk controls to keep up with fast moving product development teams. Learn the nuts and bolts of how to integrate risk management into the overall product development workflow using a requirements
Is your medical device secure? I learned a lot about the latest trends in cybersecurity and how to protect medical devices and hospitals at a conference this week hosted in San Francisco and featuring presentations by cybersecurity experts from the medical device industry, from hospital systems, and from vendors of security tools. Medical device cybersecurity
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Aaron Joseph and Roger Tang, PhD, Principal at HR Tang Consulting A successful product development process for innovative products is naturally comprised of two mindsets. Early in the product development process, where the uncertainty is the highest, the team’s focus is on rapid learning to close knowledge gaps. These knowledge gaps are those that are
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Here are some good online resources: http://www.leanprimer.com/downloads/lean_primer.pdf – good overview of lean principles written by two software management consultants (Craig Larman and Bas Vodde) who include aspects of software agile methods as well. http://theleanthinker.com/ – a blog by Mike Rother with lots of good observations and real-life issues involved in changing an organization to lean http://www.lean.org/ – Lean Enterprise
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