Product development solutions

Product development solutions are computer programs that help carry out the process of investigating a product’s concept and launching this product. Product development solutions are widely used in R&D divisions and marketing departments in many various companies. Such software solutions allow using templates, task lists, schedules, worksheets, timelines, working calendars, and other tools to practice effective product development management. Marketers, engineers, developers, analysts and other professionals involved in new product planning and manufacturing can make necessary product development measurements and estimations to generate, test and approve product concepts as well as construct and commercialize final products. If your company needs to manage workflows and tasks of product development organization, then it can use such solutions.

It is hard to imagine successful product development without well-planned and effective task & time management. For example, the product development process has two stages such as Product Idea Investigation and Product Launch. Each stage includes a series of tasks that should be accomplished by appropriate employees (like developers, planners, engineers, marketers etc.) within expected time periods. If these people cannot do their tasks on schedule the overall process gets under risk of failure.

Product development solutions help you solve these challenges. Such solutions offer the following tools of task & time management:

• Templates and Checklists. During product development planning it’s convenient to use templates and checklists that include sample tasks and jobs. Templates and checklists give you an opportunity to save your time and improve your planning.
• To-do Lists and Task Lists. Using to-do lists helps you make job assignments and engage your employees in doing their tasks. Task lists help you plan and carry out product development analysis, reviews, and audits.
• Schedules and Calendars. Using schedules lets you set durations and deadlines for employee tasks and jobs. Calendars help you plan working time and schedule activities related to product development evaluation, tracking and measurement.
• Reports. With help of reports you can regularly review both intermediate and final results and perform product development assessment. Reports allow you to view employee performance and track status of product development assignments

VIP Task Manager lets you use all these tools for planning, scheduling and tracking employee tasks and time. It’s a task management application for time planning and group collaboration. VIP Task Manager features Task List view, Task Tree view and Calendar view which serve as product development solutions. For instance, in Task Tree view you can make templates and checklists. In Calendar view you can design schedules, timelines and working calendars. In Task List view you can create separate tasks and build reports.

The software features Filter Bar that helps you with product development tracking and task monitoring. You can filter tasks by one or several attributes (like Name, Due Date, Assignment, Status, % Complete, Priority etc.). Filter Bar also helps you with product development reporting. You can filter your task list by certain attributes and then build a report.