Leading Development Teams

Product development teams require strong leadership and the ability to bring together multiple functions and cultures to effectively bring a new or major modified product or service to the market. This course will concentrate on the specific and unique approaches for creating a high performing product development team. During product development, teams are confronted with a number of ongoing organizational challenges and there is a high potential for conflict between participants in the process. This course addresses teamwork and other "soft-side" factors that largely determine whether product development programs are successfully completed on schedule. Topics include building and launching effective teams, conducting team touch-bases and meetings, strategies for long-term team communication, and the specialized needs for innovative development-centered teams.