working with the mahd team

Introduction

MAHD Consultants and Trainers are experts in the MAHD Framework and can help guide your team to agile success. They can help assess your situation, develop a customized learning and implementation roadmap as well as provide:

  • NPD Assessment & Transformation – Help with analyzing your current situation throughout the product lifecycle and identifying bottlenecks, challenges, and areas where agile methods can provide significant benefits.

  • Agile for Hardware Workshops – Learning programs to build new agile skills for teams. These can be customized for your goals and situation.

  • Team and 1-on-1 Coaching – Coaching team members in critical roles such as agile project leaders, product owners, product managers, and technical leaders, and team-based coaching to facilitate and guide implementation.

Why Work with the MAHD Team?

Experienced NPD Professionals

You'll learn from MAHD and NPD experts, each with years of development and Agile experience in a wide range of HW & SW-based industries.

Customized
Training Options

Programs designed for your goals & situation to get fast results. From basic training to full MAHD implementation and company transformation.

Proven Tools and Templates

Programs include a complete suite of step-by-step MAHD tools and templates including support to make your current tools work for agile methods.

MAHD Leader
Certification

With each program you can choose to certify product, project & technical leaders in key roles to extend agile leadership to your whole organization.

Challenges to DIY Agile

Many teams try to implement MAHD by researching agile methods or using the tools available on this site. Some make strong progress, but many struggle because they:

  • Get pulled back toward software-based agile methods such as Scrum or SAFe
  • Rely on one or two advocates without building broader team and leadership alignment
  • Apply only isolated pieces of the MAHD Framework, limiting results and momentum
  • Struggle to adapt key elements such as User Stories, Focus Matrix, or IPAC Iteration Plans
  • Fall back to familiar traditional methods when execution gets difficult

The MAHD Team brings years of proven experience applying agile methods to physical products, systems, and hardware/software solutions. We offer cost-effective, practical support to help you determine whether MAHD is right for your organization, build confidence quickly, and achieve visible benefits faster.

Explore our flexible learning and implementation options below.

MAHD Tools Accelerate Implementation

Targeted, hands-on training help teams accelerate MAHD implementation through a range of tools, including:

  • MAHD Reference Playbook – Complete details for each step of the process that can be customized to build your internal agile processes.
  • Templates – Excel, Word and PPT templates that provide the starting point or used directly to manage your agile process.
  • Key Role Toolkit – Build proficiency in key roles quickly with targeted tools.
  • Support tools – A range of tools to reinforce agile principles and key concepts.

Join Our MAHD Service Provider Community

If you or your organization are experts in new product development, have a passion for seeing clients build new capabilities,  and believe in the advantages of agile methods, we encourage you to learn more about our MAHD Partner Program. Email us to learn more.