Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
Applying Lean thinking to innovation – Speaker Jeffrey Hastie
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
Knowing Your Gaps – Speaker Geoff Neiley
Geoff Neiley will explore how he identifies and approaches knowledge gaps during the engineering process.
Test, Test, Test
Testing has a very different evolution comparing testing of software with testing of hardware. Testing has several purposes: customer feedback, risk mitigation, learning, validation, etc. It’s also a great source for innovations. Why I ask myself if the best...
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...