Product Development

Product development teams are responsible for critical day-in-day-out product decisions that dictate the very success of your business strategy. This requires an intimate understanding of markets and customers, a common process that supports the needs of all participants, a unified plan of record and of course systems to drive productivity and collaboration. By gaining a holistic view of these considerations, companies can confidently identify, define and launch winning products.

Challenges Accept Product Development Addresses

• No single source of market, customer, competitive, and requirements data
• Trouble balancing and prioritizing conflicting market and product requirements
• Problems reconciling top-down and bottom-up planning
• Increasing market, product and organizational complexity
• No visibility into schedules, resources, tasks, and budgets
• No way to course correct mid-stream based on new market developments
• No way to unite all stakeholders in the process around a shared plan of record

Establish and Drive a Common Plan of Record

The Accept Product Development module is the platform for creating a shared plan of record that unites all participants in the process—
executives, product owners, and development teams.

It enables you to improve commercial product success, drive productivity and reduce time-to-market by better aligning business strategies, key objectives, resources and budgets with your plan of record. By integrating all ideation, planning and requirements data in a single repository, Accept improves visibility, control and collaboration across dispersed teams. Accept Product Development enables you to:

• Create detailed product plans that ensure top-down and bottom-up alignment from strategy through product requirements
• Manage requirements and roadmaps in the context of customers, markets, and competitors
• Visually evaluate alternate plans based on comprehensive market and product data – not inference or intuition – and adjust product investments to maximize value and minimize risk
• Easily produce market and product requirements documents
• Manage project schedules, resources, budgets, and risks through product planning, development, and launch