Product Life Cycle Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Product Life Cycle Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Product Life Cycle related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Product Life Cycle specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Product Life Cycle Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Product Life Cycle improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How can a company use the introduction stage of the product life cycle to identify opportunities for improving product design and development by gathering customer feedback and incorporating it into the product development process?
   
   

2. How can a company use the introduction phase of the product life cycle to identify opportunities for early supplier engagement and collaborative design of products and packaging to reduce material costs and environmental impact?
   
   

3. What role does storytelling play in marketing communications and advertising efforts across each stage of the product life cycle, and how can companies leverage storytelling to build emotional connections with customers?
   
   

4. What are the most effective strategies for responding to customer complaints and feedback during the maturity stage of the product life cycle, and how can companies ensure that these responses are timely and effective?
   
   

5. How can a company use the introductory stage of the product life cycle to identify opportunities for gathering feedback from early adopters and innovators to improve product development and customer satisfaction?
   
   

6. What are the opportunities and challenges associated with using artificial intelligence and machine learning in the post-launch evaluation process, and how can a company leverage these technologies effectively?
   
   

7. What are the most effective channels for gathering customer feedback during the growth stage of the product life cycle, and how can companies ensure that this feedback is accurately captured and responded to?
   
   

8. What are the key challenges that companies face in terms of allocated resources and budget during the decline stage, and how can marketing communications and advertising efforts be adapted to maximize ROI?
   
   

9. How can a company use the product life cycle to identify opportunities for improving regulatory compliance by monitoring the introductory phase for emerging regulations that may impact product development?
   
   

10. How can a company's product life cycle analysis help identify areas for improvement in distribution and logistics management during the introduction stage, where high volumes and fast delivery are crucial?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Product Life Cycle book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Product Life Cycle self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Product Life Cycle Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Product Life Cycle areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Product Life Cycle Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Product Life Cycle projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Product Life Cycle Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Product Life Cycle project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Are the quality tools and methods identified in the Quality Plan appropriate to the Product Life Cycle project?
   
   

2. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its methods are appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

3. Change Request: Can static requirements change attributes like the size of the change be used to predict reliability in execution?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Is there no evidence of any individual on the evaluation panel being biased?
   
   

5. Quality Management Plan: Are there procedures in place to effectively manage interdependencies with other Product Life Cycle projects / systems?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: When corresponding references were made, was a precise description of the performance not otherwise possible and were the already stated references accompanied by the words or equivalent?
   
   

7. WBS Dictionary: Are procedures in existence that control replanning of unopened work packages, and are corresponding procedures adhered to?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Are updated Product Life Cycle project time & resource estimates reasonable based on the current Product Life Cycle project stage?
   
   

9. Project or Phase Close-Out: What advantages do the an individual interview have over a group meeting, and vice-versa?
   
   

10. Source Selection Criteria: Do you want to have them collaborate at subfactor level?


 
Step-by-step and complete Product Life Cycle Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Product Life Cycle project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Product Life Cycle project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Product Life Cycle project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Product Life Cycle project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Product Life Cycle project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Product Life Cycle project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Product Life Cycle project with this in-depth Product Life Cycle Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Product Life Cycle projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Product Life Cycle and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Product Life Cycle investments work better.

This Product Life Cycle All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.