Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
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...
Chalmers and the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
LPPDE here gets an opportunity to bring Lean product development into university engineering education in a way that we are not aware has been tried before
Better is the enemy of good enough
As engineers, we are trained to solve problems. We are thought to break down problems into smaller parts and seek the root cause of the problem. We are taught a range of analysis skills. Following the scientific method, we begin to postulate solutions and invent...
What is the Right Metric for Development?
When I was developing a presentation for the LPPDE conference last fall, I was wondering what metric to use to tie to speed of Development? I’ve always struggled with the goal of development… even after years in Lean and LPPD! Yeah, because it’s Innovation, that...
How do you identify the best solution to your problem?
Lean Product Development stresses the importance of exploring the whole solution space, i.e., to become aware of every possible solution to our problem so that we can thoroughly investigate and compare them all. Using creative as well as systematic techniques, we can...
Using the LAMDA cycle to create value for customers
The Lamda Cycle Allen Ward describes the model in his excellent little book titled The Lean Development Skills Book from 2002. You could say it´s a variant of PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) more suited for Product Development. It is simple and ingenious: Look – Go look at...