Cross-Functional Teams Archives - Quality During Design

From “Fall-Through” to “Follow-Through”: A Proactive Strategy for Design

Too much “fall-through”? We talk about the proactive strategy “follow-up and follow-through” and what that looks like for design.

Driving Effective Conversations-Prioritizing and Decision Making at Concept Development and Beyond

We navigate the challenge of prioritizing and decision making to make the crucial trade-off decisions that can make or break your product.

Driving Effective Conversations-Three Major Aspects to Consider for DfX

How do we better design for excellence? We should ask our cross-functional teams about these three major aspects. Knowing why helps.

Driving Effective Conversations-Taking the Lead in Working Meetings

We unravel the importance of communication and self-advocacy in the realm of product design, how to take the lead in working meetings with cross-functional teams to get design inputs.

Foundations-Understanding Cross-Functional Collaboration

On this episode of Quality during Design, we pull back the curtains on the dynamics of cross-functional collaboration in product design.

Information Development in Design, with Scott Abel – Part 2 (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Scott Abel and Dianna Deeney talk about information development; how experts in this field are an integral part of product design.

Information Development in Design, with Scott Abel – Part 1 (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Scott Abel and Dianna Deeney talk about the latest practices in information development management and how it leads to product design success.

The Instant Glory of Projects

We do projects all the time. Some projects are about developing new things, and others are about improving what we have – continuous improvement. In the quality realm, there’s what they call the instant glory model. This same kind of thing can happen in product design, too. We talk about what quality folks call an instant…

What to do about Virtual Meetings

How do virtual meetings affect the product design engineers who are trying to get design inputs from the cross-functional team?

Engineering with Receptivity, with Sol Rosenbaum (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Sol Rosenbaum and Dianna Deeney talk about engineering with receptivity: how an openness with others for new impressions leads to success.