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Resource Assignment In Short Life Technology Intensive (Slti) New Product Development (Npd), Randy A. Reagan
Resource Assignment In Short Life Technology Intensive (Slti) New Product Development (Npd), Randy A. Reagan
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Enterprises managing multiple concurrent New Product Development (NPD) projects face significant challenges assigning staff to projects in order to achieve launch schedules that maximize financial returns. The challenge is increased with the class of Short Life Technology Intensive (SLTI) products characterized by technical complexity, short development cycles and short revenue life cycles. Technical complexity drives the need to assign staffing resources of various technical disciplines and skill levels. SLTI products are rapidly developed and launched into stationary market windows where the revenue life cycle is short and decreasing with any time-to-market delay. The SLTI-NPD project management decision is to assign …