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Developing a New Product - Gantt Chart

- Developing a New Product
- Preliminary assessment
- Document the new product idea
- Collect background information
- Assess new product opportunity
- Decision to go ahead or not
- Investigation
- Planning the investigation
- Allocate resources
- Establish schedule
- Establish budget
- Commercial data
- Assess market
- Assess competition
- Assess potential sales
- Define customer requirements
- Define product requirements
- Technical feasibility
- Run lab tests
- Establish process
- Overall assessment
- Define requirements
- Development
- Manufacturing
- Resources (internal)
- Resources (external)
- Systems
- Operations
- Maintenance
- Service
- Other assessments
- Financial
- Safety
- Environmental
- Legal and patent
- Risk analysis
- Assess investigation phase
- Decision to go ahead or not
- Planning
- Product specification
- Financial plan
- Schedule
- Development plan
- Production plan
- Advanced notice to vendors
- Launch plan
- Assess planning phase
- Decision to go ahead or not
- Development
- Assign resources
- Establish user groups
- Review commercial data
- Develop process
- Produce first prototype
- Review prototype and process
- Internal
- Technical
- Commercial
- Refine product and process
- Analyze data from reviews
- Determine product changes
- Determine process changes
- Modify plans and specifications
- Modify process
- Produce second prototype
- Review second prototype
- Internal
- External (user groups)
- Analyze data from review
- Modify product and/or process
- Update all plans
- Create manufacturing design
- Assess development phase
- Decision to go ahead or not
- Pilot phase
- Allocate resources to pilot phase
- Establish schedule for pilot phase
- Secure customer participation in pilot
- Prepare pilot plan
- Carry out pilot
- Review pilot phase
- Decision to go ahead or not
- Production phase
- Review/update production plan
- Allocate resources
- Establish schedule
- Sign-off product specifications
- Sign-off production process requirements
- Finalize production plan
- Manufacture of first units
- Setup systems infrastructure
- Setup operations infrastructure
- Develop maintenance plan
- Develop service plan
- Develop training plan
- Launch phase
- (see product launch template)
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