by Geoff Neiley | Apr 1, 2020 | What is Lean Product Development?
You have probably heard of the A3 method – the tool made famous by Toyota. We have been using A3s at AS&E for about 5 years now and have built up a fairly extensive library of knowledge using them. Along the way we have changed our culture to look for and...
by Peter Palmer | Aug 7, 2019 | Exchange, Lean Product Development, What is Lean Product Development?
My background of LPPDELet´s start in March 2006. I attended a conference in Chicago called Lean Design & Development, it was a great conference but something was missing. One evening we went out with to have dinner with an interesting author I read, namely Michael...
by John Carter | Jul 29, 2018 | Lean Product Development, What is Lean Product Development?
The myths about Agile generally come from two groups. The first, and high in number, are the Agilists who have almost a religious view of ‘Capital A’ Agile. The second group is comprised of more tenured hardware engineers and their managers. They are both wrong, but...
by Janne Lundberg | Jul 18, 2018 | Lean Product Development, What is Lean Product Development?
In my daily work, improving innovation in globally leading companies, I experience two dominant problem areas –innovation level decreasing and overloading of innovation resources. These seem to be systemic and my thinking is that they are based on some ‘traps’. Trap...
by Norbert Majerus | Sep 15, 2017 | What is Lean Product Development?
In the early parts of this century, Lean, especially lean-sigma came under intense criticism: An article in the Forbes magazine (Norbert Majerus, Lean-Driven Innovation, CRC Press, 2015) documented results, mainly from 3M, which indicated that lean – or at least...
by Bella Englebach | Jul 16, 2017 | What is Lean Product Development?
I’ve been attending the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange conference for several years now. I attended the first LPPDE in Denver in 2008, and while I haven’t had “perfect attendance,” I’ve made quite a few of the exchanges, in North America and in Europe....
