The Savvy Consortium Presents

Product Development and Product Engineering Conference XXIII

Agile, Innovative, Lean, Visual, Collaborative

September 14-15, 2017, Minneapolis, MN

Savvy engineering managers present their experiences adapting the practices and managing the development teams and engineers to continually advance science, technology and high performance processes. The engineering managers presenters will include and demonstrate their experiments and valuable tools you can use to continually build the talent of your engineers, meet your new products timelines, and improve work satisfaction: yours and your colleagues.

Strategic Panel: This is a new knowledge generating activity designed to introduce you to the opportunities for building the talent of your product development people. Diverse talent is the focus of this panel.

Benchmarking Session: Move to the next improved state of standard NPI work.  Savvy Consortium members, facilitated by Todd Stute, engage you in ‘deep learning’ benchmarking.  This facilitated activity focuses on the select critical practices that you have in common NPI people (see the topics below). 

Savvy Conference Speakers will describe their: Design reviews, learning cycles, knowledge handoffs, risk mitigations, standard work, flow and schedule, cadence and collaboration. Agile practices, visual management, collaboration practices, NPI process improvement challenges. PDCA, Lamda, Six Sigma, OODA, House of Quality, knowledge gaps, Kanban.

Register now to receive the booklet “Standard Work of the Product Development Engineering Manager” just published.