Quality during Design

QDD Redux: How to self-advocate for more customer face time (and why it's important)

Dianna Deeney Episode 96

Send us a text

We've been talking about how to best work with our cross-functional team at early concept development - to use quality and reliability tools in working meetings to really understand the concept space as a way to design for how the customer may experience our new concept idea.

Coming out of our talks make be questions about unknowns or misalignments. We may need to meet our customers where they're at to get clarity.

When engineers say, "I'd like to talk with a customer about this," we usually get push-back.

We need to tackle objections and remove obstacles between design engineers and their customers. For ideas, I've pulled an episode from the archive, originally published December 2021.

Listen-in to learn how we can take next steps in the concept space when visiting customers.

See the podcast blog for some more information.  

DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT
Take this quick quiz to cut through the 'design fog' and discover where your greatest potential lies

BI-WEEKLY EPISODES
Subscribe to this show on your favorite provider and Give us a Rating & Review to help others find us!

SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here.

MONTHLY DIGEST
Subscribe to the free monthly e-newsletter: newsletter.deeneyenterprises.com
Get the short version on Linked-In: Subscribe here.

About me
Dianna Deeney is a quality advocate for product development with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing. She is president of Deeney Enterprises, LLC, which helps organizations optimize their engineering processes and team perform...

People on this episode

Podcasts we love

Check out these other fine podcasts recommended by us, not an algorithm.

Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance Artwork

Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance

Reliability.FM: Accendo Reliability, focused on improving your reliability program and career