Fundamentals of Lean Product Development:
Eliminate Late Design Changes

Eight Sessions: Fridays, September 17 - November 5, 2010
Participation strictly limited to 12 per session.

Are you plagued with late design changes?

Do you get surprises from customers, your production partners or suppliers when it's too late to make easy changes?

Do your new products miss their launch dates, cost targets or quality goals?

This web learning experience will help you undestand how how the fundamental practices of lean product development eliminate the root causes of late design changes to accelerate lean product development.

The web learning experience provides an introduction to lean principles, practices and tools for product developers who need to evaluate whether or not lean product development can help their product development teams eliminate design changes in late development.

Sessions

Sessions take place on Fridays for one hour. We will set the specific time based upon participants' availability for each session.

Dates and topics are as follows:

• Setptember 17, 2010: Lean PD Principles, Value Creation and the Root Causes of Late Design Changes
• September 24, 2010: LAMDA and Other Rapid Learning Cycles
• October 1, 2010: Visual Knowledge, Obeyas and Knowledge Supermarkets
• October 8 , 2010: Management by Proposal and nemawashi
• October 15, 2010: Value Engineering and the Voice of the Customer
• October 22, 2010: Set-Based Concurrent Engineering and Convergent Decision-Making
• October 29, 2010: Visible Rhythmic Processes
• November 5, 2010: The Chief Engineer

Format

Katherine will conduct each live session personally.

Participants will have access to Katherine via email during the course and for 90 days following the class to discuss how to implement course material.

Participants may ask questions and participate in class discussions by phone or through the web interface.

Each session will be recorded. The recorded presentation with slides will be distributed to the participants. Each participant will have the ability to download the recording approximately 24 hours after the session.

There will be homework assignments between each session, and Katherine is available by email to answer questions about the homework.

The "Waste Free" Guarantee:

Our refund policy is as lean as it gets: if any of our products or services don't meet your expectations, we will refund your money.

Registration Options

• Individual Registration: $795 per person.
• Team Registration:
  • $100 off per person per class for three or more.

Take this class with Building Support for Lean Product Development and get $200 off the combined price.

Frequently Asked Questions:

• I’ve read all the books about lean product development.  Will I learn anything new?
  
  Although there are some excellent books that describe the lean product development system, no one has yet pulled together all of the experiences within the Lean PD community into a published work.
  
  I have a global network of connections developed through LPPDE, the Lean PD Benchmarking Study and my international client base. I am the lean product development expert who is best positioned to draw upon a diverse set of experiences to help you evaluate lean product development within the context of your specific organization.
  
  As I learn more about you through your questions, I can provide tailored responses to help you understand how this would work for you.
  
  
• How is this web class different from a face-to-face workshop?
  
  Most one day classes offer six hours of instruction.  This web class gives you eight hours for about the same price – even less if you sign up as a group.
  
  That’s not the only difference:  when you go away to take a workshop (or pay big bucks to bring a consultant to you), you listen to a lot of lecture, maybe go through a case study or two, and then go home. 
  
  This class extends over two months to give you time to digest the material, reflect upon its value to your organization and discuss it among your team, and then bring your questions back to the class.
  
  
• How interactive is the class?
  
  The class is as interactive as you make it.   You can participate in the class discussions, share your own work and give feedback on others’ ideas, ask me questions off-line and connect with others in your class.
  
  
• What if I don’t have time to make all of the meetings?
  
  We record each class session and make it available for later review on the class home page.  In fact, some people have taken the class entirely off-line through listening to the recordings after the sessions.
  
  
• What system requirements do I need to take the class?
  
  We use Adobe Connect to run our web classes. You just need an internet connection, and a Flash-compatible browser.  To test your system, click here.
  
• What if my entire team wants to take the class together?
  You have three alternatives:
  • Sign up for the class as a group.  You can either join the call from a conference room, or from your individual phone lines.  Each person participating in the call needs to have a paid registration.
    
    
  • Schedule a customized version of the course.  This makes sense if you wish to have more than five people on the call, and/or if you have specific areas that you wish to focus on during the class. This is a good option for a pilot program team.