Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
Rowing is a team sport and so is 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...
Coronavirus Vaccine: Lean Development Principles in Action
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?
2020 Looking Back – Opportunity to Rethink How to Be Innovative
2020 looking back – Opportunity to rethink how to be innovative
I wanted to reach out at this holiday time to say thank you for being a learner and a supporter to the LPPDE community.
Tips for virtual lean workshops
Tips for virtual lean workshops Product development highly depends on people working together. Breaking down silos in development projects is one of the first improvements to do when it’s not working: making sure everyone can see the whole – and how their own bit...
Chalmers and the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
LPPDE here gets an opportunity to bring Lean product development into university engineering education in a way that we are not aware has been tried before
Better is the enemy of good enough
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...