Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories

In business, time to market (TTM), is very important. Late product launches and slow TTM negatively impact revenues, risk the erosion of the addressable market, reducing opportunities and causing products to become obsolete faster. That’s why, the speed and pace of the global operating environment is only getting get faster and faster. You can say there is a “terror-balance” (interdependence) between value creation, risk and speed. Eliminate all risks and, at the same, time you eliminate any value creation. Both at highest and lowest possible speed you get exposed to more risk.

I heard it once said that “The value that engineering brings to an organization is the creation of useful knowledge.” I thought the value I brought was the new product I develop for the customer!? But where do those products come from? How do we make decisions about...

Much is said and written about building trust in an organization, yet many teams still suffer from low levels of trust within the team and between the team and their leader. So how do leaders act to gain their peoples trust? And how do leaders put trust in their...

How would your organization benefit from rapid innovation of new products that solve customers’ problems? In this session Jeffrey Hastie tells the story of how Bose Lean journey started and expanded over time

Geoff Neiley will explore how he identifies and approaches knowledge gaps during the engineering process.