Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
AI & Machine Learning: Enhancing Products and Process Today!
AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are now a substantial part of new products across industries – yes including those outside of the consumer internet. AI/ML is helping startups and established firms alike create new product categories. But it is equally helpful on...
Lean is not just for manufacturing anymore
You are reading this because you are in the process of exploring and educating yourself about how to get started on a lean journey either for you or for your organization. I’m sure you at this point have read a lot of different articles, found different blogs and even...
Failing Fast – Learning Fast
Everybody talks about failing fast. Great stuff, but today, we talk about replacing "Fail fast" with something more valuable.Yes.Really.Fast learning.The idea of "Fail fast" is that many of our ideas will not work, therefore the faster we rip through them, the faster...
System Level Product Development – Waterfall or Agile? Do Both!
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...
Finding joy in lean
A journeyI am a trained scientist. Science taught me to be curious about learning, and to always ask “what else is possible?”. The stories of great scientists, enlightened men and women, who, in the face of adversity, trusted in the raw evidence of their scientific...
“Seeing” waste in Product Development: Knowledge Management
One of the biggest challenges in applying Lean to Product Development is the ability to “see” waste. Manufacturing has traditionally led in Lean implementation, possibly because it is much easier to identify waste in manufacturing. Inventory can be seen. Wasted motion...