Chaptermeeting Frankfurt @Ernst&Young

There will be 2 Presentations separated by a break to network.

Presentation1 by Peter Reynders

doctoral degree in Chemistry & Physics at MPI Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
1998-2020 Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
1990-2010 Merck Product and process development Pigments (Electronics)
1990- 2020 Supervision of theses incl on Stage-Gate/Agile hybrid project management
2001 Architect of R&D project management at Merck
2008- today Teaching Professor of Project / Portfolio Management TU Darmstadt & ENSCPB
2010-2024 Merck Life Science PMO
2016-2024 SAP Global Key User
2024-today Retired from Merck – but only officially, still working on projects and teaching at the universities

Agile-Stage-Gate® Hybrids

• Stage Gate® is a method of cross-functional coordination.
• Agile work is best for specific tasks like optimizing a concept or optimizing a scale-up.
• Therefore, one can use Agile philosophy and tools in these stages within a product development process.

What Comes after Agile resp. Agile-Stage-Gate® Hybrids?

• In many cases the Agile approach has shortened the projects and resulted in better products:
• Especially when the market and technology is changing during the project duration.
• Agile has led to longer project durations for line-extension products.
• Stage-Gate® has products and features (components) under one project or program.
• This has created lots of ambiguities and limits.
• Let us separate projects, products and features.

Please address any questions to Martin.Bertram@pmi-gc.de