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NPI - PROJECT DELIVERY - MANUFACTURING READINESS
NPI Insights
Practical observations on the decisions, assumptions and constraints behind complex product development. Longer reads on Medium. Shorter conversations on LinkedIn.
FROM MEDIUM
Explore the bigger picture
Articles that unpack recurring NPI challenges
Production readiness
Built into the project
MANUFACTURING READINESS
Production Readiness Is Not Just A Meeting
Why readiness depends on decisions and evidence accumulated throughout development, long before the final launch review.
Good designs
Difficult launches
NPI EXECUTION
Why NPI Projects fail, and what great teams do differently
Explore the resource pressure, hidden assumptions, and cross-functional gaps that turn promising projects into delivery problems.
EVT - DVT - PVT
STAGE-GATE GOVERNANCE
The Complete Guide to New Product Introduction
A complete guide on NPI projects, from idea through to production.
FROM LINKEDIN
Continue the conversation
Shorter observations to take into your next leadership review
CM
Chris Muteham
NPI and technical project leadership
Green does not always mean healthy
A project can look reassuring on a status report while its most important assumptions remain untested.
At the next review, ask: what evidence supports our confidence—and what would change our view?
CM
Chris Muteham
NPI and technical project leadership
Most NPI gates ask the wrong question
And then unsurprisingly you end up with the wrong answer.
There are five key questions I want answers to before letting an NPI project pass its next gate.
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