by Vesa Koskela | May 2, 2021 | Knowledge, Lean Product Development
The first moment There are moments in life when you realize something. I had three such moments a few years back when pushing a chaotic project forward and realized that my project was not going to be successful, no matter what I was doing, with items in my power. The...
by Carolyn Carter | Apr 25, 2021 | Improvement Success, Knowledge, Lean Product Development
Get your ducks in a row and your objectives aligned to ensure speed in development In an earlier blog post, we established the objective of the Development Organization is to optimize Throughput or deliver speed of Development. If we agree, then we might ask...
by Geoff Neiley | Feb 25, 2021 | Knowledge, Lean Product Development
Rowing is a team sport and so is product development. Why is this an important idea? A couple years ago I read the book The Boys In The Boat (Danial James Brown, Penguin Books, 2014) and I learned about the concept of “swing.” Swing is when all eight oarsmen are...
by Durward K. Sobek II | Jan 15, 2021 | Exchange, Improvement Success, Knowledge, Lean Product Development
A Covid-19 vaccine has sped to public distribution in record time, four times faster than the fastest vaccine development to-date. How did it happen? Not without the efforts of thousands of researchers, engineers, technologists, factory workers, delivery drivers, and...
by Peter Palmer & Göran Gufstafsson | Oct 28, 2020 | Exchange, Improvement Success, Knowledge, Lean Product Development
The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (https://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/) is an Australian race for solar powered vehicles which has been run for over 30 years. From the premiere in 1987, 15 races have been run, the latest in October 2019. The distance is 3000 km,...
by Geoff Neiley | Oct 27, 2020 | Exchange, Knowledge, Lean Product Development
As engineers, we are trained to solve problems. We are thought to break down problems into smaller parts and seek the root cause of the problem. We are taught a range of analysis skills. Following the scientific method, we begin to postulate solutions and invent...
