Agile Change Management for Manufacturers

Change management is the cornerstone of a manufacturer's agile new product development process. Learn how to use change management best practices to gain a competitive advantage.

Change is normal. Embracing change gives your company a competitive edge, enabling you to get products to market and respond to customer feedback faster than ever before. This course explains how to make change management more agile within the new product development (NPD) process. Learn why change management is so difficult in manufacturing, and how agile strategies such as iterative planning and modular design can help solve change management challenges. Discover how to anticipate and constrain change, and use new technology such as digital information sharing and model-based design to further enhance agile change. Instructor Mark Hechel also explores a solution framework built around CMII that can support agile change from NPD through post-launch product management.

Introduction

• Need to manage change in an Agile environment?
• What you should know

1. Problems with Engineering Change Management

• Change is painful
• Poor accessibility of data
• Absence of systemic support
• Numerous organizational interfaces
• Process challenges

2. Change Process Improvements

• Change is normal
• Increased rigor for NPD
• Closed-loop feedback
• Anticipating change
• Fencing in change

3. Tool/Technology Improvements

• Stages of maturity
• Model-based design
• Digital design reviews

4. Solution Framework

• Framework
• Team dynamics
• Change: In NPD
• Change: Customer-driven

Conclusion

• Next steps