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"A definitive and immersive exposure to
an important and elusive topic, presented by a leader
and driver in the industry. You will learn and be able
to immediately apply a great deal."
-Lou Perich, VP, Engineering, American Science &
Engineering
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"Addresses a topic that has been ignored
or undervalued for too long. All other aspects of Corporate
life, outside of product development, are measured and
tracked. The time has come to measure and optimize product
development."
-Mark Sherwood, Director, Engineering, Cisco Systems,
Inc.
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"Seminar would significantly improve knowledge
to implement metrics and measure to eliminate wasted
effort, product failures and improve productivity and
efficiency and change behavior."
-Shabbir Hussain, VP, R&D, Everest Software, Inc.
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"A great exposure to the principles, a conceptual
framework and the state of practice of Product Development
Metrics! Very few seminars make me think this hard!"
-Larry Rosenberger, VP, R&D, Fair Isaac Corporation
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"This seminar opened my mind to the formulation
of relevant data to create product and institutional
performance improvements."
-Chris Scheuing, Engineer, Senior Program Manager,
InterDigital Communications Corp.
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"Helped me turn my ideas on metrics from
fuzzy to specific and actionable. R & D can be a
company's biggest discretionary expense. We had better
achieve a proactive ability to measure impact and efficiency."
-Donald Munroe, VP, Global Program & Portfolio
Mgt., Invitrogen Corp.
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"This workshop gives a good overview of
a broad range of metrics - acts as a basis for a successful
implementation of control instruments to improve development
processes."
-Dietmar Tandler, VP, Development, JDSU - Acterna Germany
GmbH
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"Good mix of process discussion and metrics."
-Robert Segers, Director of Engineering, JDSU - JDS
Uniphase Acterna Unit
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"Excellent data on R & D."
-Jeff Tucker, Director, Project Mgt. Office - CATV,
JDSU - JDS Uniphase Acterna Unit
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"Great opportunity for small companies to
work with experts in the field from medium and large
companies."
-Robert Smith, General Manager, LaserCard Corporation
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"The course was great for helping validate
the metrics my department has chosen so far. It has
also given me ideas for additional metrics to incorporate,
particularly proactive and predictive. It has also been
a wonderful forum for networking with other R &
D leaders."
-Amy Parker, Project Management, Misys Healthcare System
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"This has been one of the most useful seminars
that I have attended in many years. I truly believe
that I am walking away with a tool set that will be
beneficial to me, my development organization and the
Corporation."
-Paul Flagg, Senior Director, Hardware Engineering
NMS Communications
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"The workshop successfully presented materials
and provided the opportunity to customize a set of metrics
which will bring immediate value to my organization."
-Ron Von Wald, Director, Business Development &
Technology, Omni -Tract Surgical
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"A great way to get a huge list of already
in-use metrics that real companies are using today."
-Rich Menendez, Director, Engineering & Program
Mgt., Panasas
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"My brain is full. Thanks!"
-Cory Thompson, Manager, Software Development, Plato
Learning
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"This course enabled me to quickly assemble
an initial set of metrics that can be deployed within
my Company to better measure the effectiveness of R
& D."
-Stanley Moyer, Executive Director, Telcordia Technologies
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