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50 Industry-Inspired Best Practices for Quality Products

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Successful Product Development Organizations

Ensure They Understand the Design Problem.

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BEST PRACTICE KEY CONCEPTS

  • There are many types of design problems.
  • Design problems focus on all levels of product granularity, from entire products to minor details.
  • Some problems depend on mature technologies, and others on those just evolving.
  • The process of addressing problem understanding is the same regardless of discipline, type, granularity, or maturity.
  • Work yet to be done on the design problem is managed in a Problem Backlog.

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  • 4.1

Succesful Product Development Organizations

Ensure They Understand the Design Problem.

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  • Order this best practice
  • $3.99

BEST PRACTICE KEY CONCEPTS

  • There are many types of design problems.
  • Design problems focus on all levels of product granularity, from entire products to minor details.
  • Some problems depend on mature technologies, and others on those just evolving.
  • The process of addressing problem understanding is the same regardless of discipline, type, granularity, or maturity.
  • Work yet to be done on the design problem is managed in a Problem Backlog.

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