by Christer Lundh | May 9, 2021 | Knowledge, Lean Product Development
Testing has a very different evolution comparing testing of software with testing of hardware. Testing has several purposes: customer feedback, risk mitigation, learning, validation, etc. It’s also a great source for innovations. Why I ask myself if the best...
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 Sannah Vinding | Dec 27, 2020 | Exchange, Improvement Success, Lean Product Development
I wanted to reach out at this holiday time to say thank you for being a learner and a supporter of the LPPDE community. Looking back at 2020 it was a rough and challenging year for everyone and it’s a year we will never forget – this is the year we faced the...
