Self-empowered teams is a common goal for many companies. But most of the people we talk to feel it’s only a dream, or requires too much work to...
Self-empowered teams is a common goal for many companies. But most of the people we talk to feel it’s only a dream, or requires too much work to...
The goal of developing new products is profit. And even though we intuitively know it's important to get to market sooner, do you really...
We created a 9 minute video that shares two paradigm shifting ideas around what causes late projects. Here is the video, and why we did it...
The first attempt to implement Lean product development is critical. If you don’t get it right, there will be more resistance on the next attempt....
I often hear companies use the excuse that their culture is preventing them from adopting Lean product development, or making other positive...
In my previous blog post I introduced two of Don Reinertsen’s books and explained how they contained dozens and dozens of great ideas around Lean...
My last blog post was about an example of great packaging design from Girl Scout Cookies, and I pointed out that we can learn Lean and Agile...
In the previous two blogs I made a compelling case for Lean Product Development being the business...
In this post, I want to share an incredible case study that demonstrates the unexpected results that can be...
People sometimes tell me they’re having trouble getting their company...
You probably weren’t surprised last week when we shared lean product design examples from Elon Musk. But did you ever think you would learn about...
One of the topics that frequently arises when I'm talking to someone about lean product development is the concept of failing fast. They usually...
There seems to be some confusion about which works best for the hardware development process. This makes...
In a previous blog post, I mentioned how electronic lean/agile/kanban visual project...
Visual management allows you to have tangible everyday conversations about the work in progress -- it makes work visible. It's...
Does this sound familiar? Intuitively you know visual project management software is worth the investment, but how do you effectively communicate...
Manufacturers have known for years that one of the primary tenets of Lean is to identify what the customer...
At Playbook, we work with a lot of great Fortune 500 companies that are...
Welcome to Playbook's's blog, Lean and Agile product development blog. Running projects requires the ability to adapt to new information quickly...
