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How Agile and Lean Product Development methods can enable productive building of large and complex systems
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...
Setting Up for Speed of 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...
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...