mc2solutions offers a comprehensive Product Development Assessment (PDA) methodology through our affiliation with DRM Associates.

The PDA is used to assess your organization's product development process against over 260 best practices for product development. This assessment serves as a benchmark and identifies the highest impact opportunities for further improvement. Twenty-eight (28) product development dimensions are addressed. They are organized into a framework with five major dimensions: strategy, organization, process, design optimization and technology.

The PDA was developed by a consortium led by DRM Associates which was chartered to identify product development and time-to-market best practices. These practices were derived from: corporate visits, consulting assignments, conferences, workshops and meetings, literature review, telephone discussions, technology vendors, the Navy Best Manufacturing Program, the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the AT&T Handbook series, and other corporate handbooks.

Over the years, these practices are being continually updated as new best practices emerge and are identified and as current best practices become standard practice and are no longer noteworthy.

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