April 29-30, 2004 / Cambridge, MA

An intensive, two-day workshop with Bradford L. Goldense, President, Goldense Group, Inc. and leading expert on performance measurement in product development and R&D

Course Benefits

By participating in this seminar, you will learn:

1. How to develop a set of metrics targeted for the VP of R&D to manage R&D

2. How to move your company processes past reactive monitoring to proactive management

3. How to define and differentiate between corporate and project metrics

4. How to create project metrics across unlike business units so they roll-up to be a good corporarte metric

5. How to use metrics to enable an empowered team environment.

6. Specific techniques to measure key variables such as Time-To-Market, Product Cost, Development Cost, etc...

7. Methods for quantifying team concurrency during development.

8. Ways to measure variation in the "soft" product development process.

Upon completing this workshop, you will:

• Have the fundamental knowledge and understanding to implement a logical portfolio of metrics that works systemically

• Understand how leading edge organizations approach the measurement of R&D

• Have a framework for determing the ROI of R&D in your organization