The Management Roundtable - Phase Gates - How Many Are Just Right? An interesting piece here by Curt Raschke of Texas Instruments, who outlines his company's approach to product development using phase gate process templates (they use customised versions of the PACE methodology) - certainly a reccomended read for anyone engaged in similar type of projects as its always good to know what other companies are doing in this area - and TI take their NPD seriously - as the vast bulk of their revenue has to come from products less than 3 years old, thanks to Moore's Law and demanding consumers everywhere.