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Greetings!
Autumn will soon be upon us in the Northern Hemisphere. With the lazy days of summer long past, most of us are juggling multiple projects and lengthy to-do lists.
In this month's feature article we help you to get a handle on the smaller projects that threaten your productivity. Learn four simple steps to manage small projects, like product improvements.
In our popular feature, Ask the NPD Coach, we look at a great question regarding NPDP Certification with Q&A from the NPDP Discussion Forum.
And we wrap up with this month's recommended reading giving you better tools to schedule those small (and large) projects.
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Organizing Project Teams for Success
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Often, projects like simple line extensions or product improvements do not need to flow through the same, complex project management systems as do global construction projects.
Learn four easy steps to simplify the project management  process for small projects. All of the tools described to help you organize the work are in spreadsheet format since you don't need complicated software!
GNPS Premier members can log-on to get their own copy of A Simplified Process for Project Management and download for FREE (first year membership is only $60 so you save $47 on an annual subscription!). Non-members can Download Now (in pdf) for only $8.95, including sales tax to learn from this in-depth study of innovation structures.
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Recommended Reading
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Critical Chain
by Eli Goldratt
 Critical Chain is a business novel by Eli Goldratt that follows up where The Goal left off. Project management troubles for many companies involve poor schedule estimates. Yet, even with large safety margins, products are delivered too late and over cost. We are currently reading & discussing Critical Chain at the Innovator's Book Club at Linked In. Come join the conversation!
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