State-Gate method

  1) How appropriate is a State-Gate method for this type of early-stage firm project? 2) CAD efficiency was the largest project cost. What steps would you have taken to reduce these costs? 3) The last 10% of the project took much longer than expected - due to unforeseen technical issues in the design and lag time with China. Please list some steps that might improve the efficiency of these iterations. How could additional project management help? 4) Could new tools such as project wiki’s (see PBWiki.com) help? How? 5) Would you view this project as an incremental innovation or a radical innovation? Why?