As a senior engineer or program manager, how can you accelerate product development yet produce better product quality?

How can you manage large, complex design projects in a way that produces small team results?

At MIT, we have developed a revolutionary strategy for managing complex product development projects that makes it possible for technical managers to prioritize design problems, create a picture of the phases of the project, and pinpoint exactly where they should concentrate their problem-solving efforts.

Developed as a research device to enable us to learn how to solve difficult project problems, our design structure matrix (DSM)-based modeling approach is a powerful concept that has been field tested successfully in dozens of organizations and industries around the world. We believe it can revolutionize the way you think about and organize complex product design and development processes.

At the program, we will explore the four critical problems of complex product design and development. You’ll learn how to solve coupled issues faster; make time/quality tradeoffs; pinpoint systems-level problems; get the architecture right; and overlap tasks to speed development.

You’ll also learn how to split up large projects into effective networks of teams and better understand the technical relationships and:

• better document existing procedures
• resequence and regroup tasks to reduce complexity
  
• share data earlier and with greater confidence
  
• redefine critical tasks to facilitate project flow
  
• expose constraints and conflicts resulting from task interactions
  
• allow design iteration to be strategically planned
  

Please contact Maureen Tracy, our program coordinator, at (781) 239-1111, to make arrangements to participate.