Setting the PACE in Product Development: A Guide to Product and Cycle-Time Excellence

Wow...fantastic is about all I can say. Brilliantly clear and simple read, very "hi-tech company focused", but 100% accurate...this really will put many companies to shame if they examined themselves after reading it...I just wish I could do a "jerry maguire" and give a copy of this to all of our senior management.

With all the previous negative reviews, I was prepared not to like this book, but I must say that I thought it was pretty good. I haven't finished it yet, but with the first half, the models and concepts provided did make a lot of sense to me, and that's with about 25 years of product development experience, of which at least 8 years was in developling product development life cycles for my organization.

米国の大手コンサルティング会社「ピティグリオ・ラビン・トッド＆マクグラス社（PRTM社）」の新製品開発手法「PACE=Product And Cycle-time Excellence」を解説した教科書的な本。　新商品開発や新しいサービス開発のプロジェクトマネジメントを行う方には参考になるツールが解説されています。一方、この本を実用的に使うには、流行の「クリティカルシンキング」や、マイケルポーターの競争戦略論等のMBA的なアプローチ手法／ツール類を理解していないと使いこなすには苦しいと思われます。この本を読んで分からないところは、PRTM社に相談してくださいということなのでしょう。　そう考えると結構高くついてしまう本のような気もしますけど、自分的には役に立った部分も多かったので「星四つ」。

This is an old book, but it’s value has not diminished by time. Technology and tools have changed, a new generation has come of age and into positions of leadership. But the basic principles still hold. Once a business transitions past a startup stage, these principles become central to its success. They must be learned and implemented with care. They can be fairly easily adapted to agile and CI/CD environments.

If you were to go back to the '70's with dictatorial management that reviewed everything - then you would find this world in the prescription of the book. He also supports bloated Project, Program and Product Manager systems. You know the ones - no one responsible, beautiful charts that can not seem to indicate product creep and slide, Engineers in multiple daily meetings so they can not engineer. The world in which many of you live or are going to.The last chapter or two, tells you the pitfalls that may be your eventual fate. You will most definitely need his PDM Software and probably his consultants if you adopt this tact. To think he quotes people and stories he knows nothing about - and he gets it wrong, both in his report and understanding.

This book is THE manual for running rapid product development teams, written in a very easy to read, approachable format. The framework of the core team and review stages are incredibly insightful yet still tremendously pragmatic for any organization needing to maximize its development dollar and new product flow.