Stage-Gate organisation and principles

List of contents (Stage-Gate sample)

Purposes and key principles   Purposes and key principles of Stage-Gate   Risk Management   Project leaders, teams and gatekeepers   Types of projects that Stage-Gate handle Idea submission and the first evaluation   Idea submission   Routing the idea into the right process Short overview of a typical project   Stage 1: Preliminary investigation   Stage 2: Detailed investigation, business case   Stage 3: Development   Stage 4: Test and validation   Stage 5: Full launch and final report

Flexibility, speed and budgets   Flexibility and speed   Project budgets   Overall R&D budgets Organizational design   Leaders & teams   The Stage-Gate process manager   Rewards and recognition Other   Red flags: discovering projects in trouble   Project evaluation and prioritization   Prioritization and resource allocation   Metrics: monitoring overall business results   Help with the development process   ;Thesaurus: definitions of words