Lean Product Development
Knowledge Brief of the Week
Every Wednesday, Katherine publishes a new Knowledge Brief to the Lean Product Development Resource Center.
Join the Lean Product Development Resource Center to get your weekly Knowledge Brief, and access to over 100 previous Knowledge Briefs.
Upcoming Knowledge Briefs
February 10:
Levels of Lean Product Development Initiatives:
What Is Your Organization Ready to Take On?
February 17:
Lean Product Development for Advanced R & D:
Steps Towards the Fully-Realized Lean Product Development Organization
February 24:
Lean Leaders Have Their Own Problems to Solve:
Middle Managers in the Lean Product Development Organization
Past
Knowledge Brief Samples
Where the Countermeasure Meets the Road:
How to Select, Kick Off and Support a Pilot Team
Strong Objectives Drive Results:
Why Lean Programs Need Clear Business Objectives
How to Organize a Lean PD Book Study Group
Your Lean Networks: How to Build a Supportive Network of Peers
The Power of Purpose: How Clear Purpose Statements Support Effective Problem-Solving
Customer Intimacy Intelligence: What It Is and Why Your Customers Want You to Bulid It
Lean Product Development for Executives: How to Get Product Development Leaders Excited About Lean Product Development (Without Freaking Them Out)
Countermeasures: How a Lean Problem-Solving Culture Solves Problems Permanently
Standardized Knowledge: What It Is and How It Can Make You More Innovative
Trusted Sources: The Importance of Authorship in Capturing Reusable Knowledge
Problems Have No Place to Hide: How Problem Visibility Drives Problem-Solving in Lean Organizations
Technology Roadmaps: Strategic Plans to Identify and Capture Reusable Knowledge
Eliminate the Weak: How Probing for Weaknesses Leads to
Better Decisions in SBCE
How to Convert a Project-Specific A3 Into Reusable Knowledge
Lean PD Influences: Flow and Pull in Product Development
Lean Problem-Solving Culture: High Accountability for What and How
How Lean Product Development Gets Ideas to Market Faster
Planning for Set-Based Concurrent Engineering:
How to Keep a Complex Process in Sync
The Seven Practice Areas of Lean Product Development:
How Lean Product Development Delivers Results
Are Stage-Gate Life Cycles Evil? How to Maximize (Value - Waste) in the Most Common Product Development Process
Join the Lean Product Development Resource Center to gain access to these Knowledge Briefs and more:
- LAMDA Deep Dive: LOOK AGAIN
How to Conduct an Actionable Reflection Event to Capture Reusable Knowledge
- LAMDA Deep Dive: Plan to ACT
- LAMDA Deep Dive: Prepare to DISCUSS
- LAMDA Deep Dive: The Power of Visual MODELs
- LAMDA Deep Dive: Tools for ASKing Why
- LAMDA Deep Dive: LOOK and the Problem Statement
- Seven Distinguishing Characteristics of the Lean PD Culture
- Five Phrases That Lean PD Champions Should Never Say
and the Questions to Ask
Instead
- Lean Sales and Marketing: The Final Frontier?
- The Top Three Objections to Lean Product Development and How to Overcome Them
- Learning Cycles: The Basics of Iterative Development for Hardware Developers
- The Ten Essential Qualities of a Lean Product Development Champion
- Pull Products Through Development with Integration Events
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Go-and-See Visits: Get the Voice of the Customer at the Source
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Four Box Problem Solving: A Jump Start into a Rapid Learning Cycle
- Knowledge Capture Interviews: Externalize Your Most Valuable Technical Knowledge with Pull
- Preparing the Ground: A3 Reports, Nemawashi and Effective Decision-making
- Questions, Questions: How to Review an A3 Report
- Have It Your Way: Varieties of A3 Reports
- The Warehouse and the Supermarket: Why Knowledge Management Systems (Usually) Don't Work
- Get Ahead of the Curve: Transcend Trade-offs with TRIZ
- How to Build a Trade Off Curve
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Five Ways Lean PD Promotes an Entrepreneurial Workplace Culture
- Are We There Yet? Metrics for Lean Product Development
- You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way: How to Encourage Knowledge Reuse
- Tacit Knowledge: When Documentation is Not Enough
- Extreme Visual Planning for People Who Hate Plans
- Product vs. Platform: Who Decides?
- How to Tame Wild Octopi: Lean Thinking for Wicked Problems
- Organized Chaos: Planning for Rapid Learning Cycles
- The Impresario and the Three Ring Circus: Product Development Leadership Models
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