Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
What Van Halen can teach us about Visual Management
Visual Management is a critical component to Lean Product Development. When I visit organizations I often see teams standing in front of a display board discussing their projects the same way they would in a meeting room. It’s just that they are standing in front of a...
Success is Assured – Transforming Your Product Development Process
Does your company have a continuous improvement strategy for your business and technical processes? Do you use metrics to encourage/measure the usage of lean tools like, K-Briefs, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Gemba, Standard Work, Plan Do Check Act.The obvious next...
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...