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Deliver complex projects on time

Playbook helps engineering and product teams achieve predictable end dates, respond to common product development changes, and keep everyone informed.   

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Late projects aren't your fault

New product development is challenging—marked by high levels of complexity and uncertainty, large teams with diverse roles, geographically dispersed,  working on multiple projects, under constant pressure to move quickly. And don’t forget, the work is invisible.
 
The result? People are working on the wrong thing at the wrong time – so the project slides a day and no one notices. This keeps happening until the target dates have come and gone. And no one knows why.
 
With Playbook, you get correct priorities across all your projects, real-time visibility, and early warning before small slips become missed deadlines.
 
Watch the video to see what happened to your dream job and then get ready to say hello to predictable end dates.

Developing great products shouldn’t be this hard!

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A better approach to project management

Playbook is a paradigm-shifting Project Management and Team Collaboration platform that ensures every team member has correct priorities, every day, for all their projects. This results in predictable end dates, happier teams (who don’t have to multitask), and status reports that are up-to-date and available 24/7 in real time.

The solution was developed by engineers with extensive experience in process science who spent many years helping teams improve their product development processes and tools. It was designed to facilitate the best practices from Lean, Agile, and Critical Chain and modify them so they work for complex projects such as R&D.

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See How It Works

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Understand why projects slip, how to quantify the impact, and how Playbook fixes it—step by step.

You’ll get instant access to the 8-Minute Demo and a 4-Part Deep Dive Series that walks through the problem, the principles behind the solution, and exactly how Playbook works in practice.

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Questions People Ask About Playbook

Is Playbook just another project management tool?
No—Playbook is built for complex, multi-project environments with shared resources, lots of dependencies, frequent changes and critical deadlines.
 
Do we have to redo all of our planning?
No. You can import existing plans into Playbook.
 
Does it matter whether we already use Agile or Scrum?
Not really. Playbook facilitates a hybrid approach that uses the best methods from Lean, Agile, and Critical Chain—and modifies them so they work in hardware environments. It's rather easy to learn and the most common response from customers is that it's just "common sense."
 
How quickly can we try it without disruption?
Fast—most teams can run a Free Trial and get 100% buy-in within two weeks. And since the trial is done on one of your active projects, there's very little downtime.
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Proven Results Across Complex Industries

See how teams reduce risk, align priorities, and deliver on time.

Medical Device and
Regulated R&D

Delivered eight months early and 20% under budget. See how regulated teams eliminate schedule risk.

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Government and
Enterprise IT

Delivered in 10 months instead of two years. See how complex IT programs gain daily clarity and early schedule insight.

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Manufacturing and
Hardware Development

Moved from 100% late to four days early. See how a hardware team identified their constraint and fixed it.

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Why Teams Choose Playbook?

Playbook brings resource management, visual work management, and plan management into one system—so you can manage priorities across multiple projects and mitigate schedule risk in real time.

  • Process-driven views that support Lean / Agile / Critical Chain
  • Real-time status reporting leadership can trust
  • Meaningful KPIs tied to schedule risk
  • Built-in process science (not just “more features”)

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Getting started is simple

  • Get a Free Trial of Playbook
  • Test it with one of your current projects
  • Get buy-in from all stakeholders

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What Our Clients Are Saying

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Curious if Playbook would work for your team?

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