New Product Development (NPD) team management must reach beyond the technical details, trade-offs and decisions to include organizing the detailed interactions and deliverables of each design and non-design new product development member. Consider the NPD process as the movement and enrichment of information between individuals, where everyone is either delivering or receiving information at any point in time. The art of semiconductor NPD team management is the ability to define and implement methods that minimize surprises in the information transfer between individuals.