Phase-Gate Product Development

Intelligent Development at Maximum Speed

 

Challenges:  Lack of standards and methodology templates, loss  valuable knowledge gained through prior projects, insufficient decision making tools for the executives.

Solution: Phase-Gate Development of products enables you to prioritize opportunities and speed to market your most promising offerings.

• Structured methodologies, linked tools and templates improve your projects in a consistent and sustainable manner. The solution’s easy-to-follow roadmap guides you, with built-in references and tools, enabling projects to be broken into an easy-to-follow, task-specific modules, producing consistency across multiple projects.
• Templates: Build your own best practice template, or use one of SigmaFlow’s proven methodology templates.  Now you can convert ideas into projects, working online and/ or offline, with status updates, gate and finance approvals, and the automatic generation and delivery of executive reports.

Value: SigmaFlow's Template-based Project Portfolio Management software enables you to complete projects faster, with higher quality, and more consistency.  Executives and Product Managers get a system that identifies the projects with the highest ROI potential, and provides broad, deep and timely reporting, along with scalability.

 

SigmaFlow Phase-Gate Product Development solution provides:

Differentiator	Benefits
Clear Prioritization	Development prioritization is facilitated with ranking of projects on the basis of their ease and benefits -including meeting enterprise-level strategic goals
Phase Requirement Clarity with Direction Between Gates	Linked reference materials and tools for each task
Elimination of Gate Meeting Guessing Games	Know where projects are, at all times
Minimum Variation	Seeing what to be done next reduces missed requirements
Self-sufficiency	Project members 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