John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Project Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2, 82–97

© 2008 by the Project Management Institute

Published online in Wiley InterScience

(www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20052

PAPERS

Project Management for New Product Development

Dirk Pons, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand

ABSTRACT

This article examines the intersection of the project management body of knowledge with new product development (NPD). The area under examination is the development of consumer products that have a significant engineering production content. It is concluded that the project management method, with its structured task definition and software tools, is generally useful for managing NPD projects. However, in ...

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