When implemented correctly, Phase-Gate Development of products is a great way to prioritize opportunities and speed to market your most promising offerings.

SigmaFlow template-based Project Portfolio Management software enables customers to complete projects faster, with higher quality, and more consistency.

Executives and Product Managers need a system that identifies the projects with the highest ROI potential, and provides broad, deep and timely reporting, along with scalability.

SigmaFlow’s Phase-Gate Product Development solution provides: structured methodologies, and the tools and templates to execute projects in a consistent and sustainable manner. The solution’s easy-to-follow roadmap guide, with built-in references and tools, enables projects to be broken into easy-to-follow, task-specific modules, producing consistency across multiple projects.

Customers have the option of building their own best practice template, or using one of SigmaFlow’s proven methodology templates.

SigmaFlow’s solution enables: the capture and evaluation of project ideas, conversion of ideas to projects, working online and/ or offline with status updates, gate and finance approvals, and the automatic generation and delivery of executive reports.

SigmaFlow Phase-Gate Product Development solution provides:

• Clear Prioritization. Development prioritization is facilitated with initial and ongoing ranking of projects on the basis of their ease and benefits -including meeting enterprise-level strategic goals. Overlapping opportunities are easily identified.
• Phase Requirement Clarity with Direction Between Gates.  Linked reference materials and tools for each task provide the information needed to complete each requirement quickly and correctly.
• Elimination of Gate Meeting Guessing Games. Know where projects are at all times. Keep gate meetings from becoming marathon discovery sessions.
• Minimum Process Variation. Because people understand what needs to be done next and how decisions will be made they are less likely to miss or avoid requirements.
• Self-sufficiency. Project members, even new employees, are able to perform at high levels without delays or the risk of getting off-track. Each workspace has task level organization of every file used during the project. Time lost searching for or recreating project work is minimized.
• Speed-to-market with Phase Flexibility. Gives you the flexibility to adjust stage authorizations and requirements. You can retain control of core phase-gate processes while still meeting specific opportunity needs since task-specific content is modularized and easily customized.
• Better Team Communication. Automated reporting as each requirement is completed means that everyone is working with current information and has access to detailed and organized project files without the burden of after-the-fact reporting. These reports allow targeted and proactive mentoring as needed.
• Portfolio Management. Executives get standardized views across all development efforts for overall prioritization of resources to meet organizational goals.

SigmaFlow's Phase-Gate Product Development software solution:

• Insights Project Management
• Coach - Offline phase-gate methodology execution