In a previous blog post I explained (and hopefully convinced you) that measuring “percent complete” literally causes your projects to take longer.
In a previous blog post I explained (and hopefully convinced you) that measuring “percent complete” literally causes your projects to take longer.
Running a daily standup meeting seems pretty simple right? After all it’s just another meeting. Well not really. The daily stand-up process is...
Yes, Agile principles can be applied with benefit in hardware product development (Agile hardware development). However, Agile's...
In the next three posts we discuss Agile principles and how to apply the principles in hardware development. In this post we look at delivering...
Agile principle 2: Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.
Software and hardware product development teams share important...
Hardware product development is different than software. Both types of products go through a build-test-learn cycle, but the most obvious difference...
Product development is hard, but with the right short and long-term planning in place, launching ahead of...
You pretty much have to have your head in the sand not to notice the changes in hardware product design innovation and new product development that...
In a previous post we discussed that there is no doubt project management methods have evolved and...
This is the ninth part in our in-depth series on Lean Agile project management.
We've covered a variety of Lean principles that have a direct impact...
About 10 years ago, very few companies that we talked to knew what Cost of Delay was, much less what their own number was for any of their products....
What is the difference between push vs pull?
In a pull system, teams pull tasks from the backlog. As opposed to a push system where work is pushed...
Change is hard. There is no doubt about that. However, if you want to create flow among new product development teams, and ultimately speed up...
A fundamental principle of Lean is smooth, continuous flow. Flow is achieved by eliminating turbulence caused when the flow through any process is...
So how do you increase certainty in project decisions. In part we can increase certainty by increasing the accuracy of our impact estimates.
Shipment delays in product development happen. Packages get lost or dropped off at the wrong location. As a result projects can get delayed more than...
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 understand...
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...
I recently read the new book Team of Teams – New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by General Stanley McChrystal. I’d like to share some of my...
At PLAYBOOK it's our mission to help you change the world faster! So, we have a number of free resources available on our website to help you on your...
Know your current product development process could use a few tweaks or maybe a total overhaul, but don’t know where to start?
We’ve pulled together...
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 and...
In the previous two blogs I made a compelling case for Lean Product Development being the business opportunity of the century, and then gave an...
The most obvious difference between hardware and software is that hard goods cannot be undone, twisted, adapted and adjusted at the same rate, or...
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 tell...
There seems to be some confusion about which works best for the hardware development process. This makes...
This series is a comprehensive review of Agile and how to apply Agile to hardware product development.We look...
So how do you make hardware development more Agile? In this part, part 5, we examine Agile's 3 and...
Welcome to Playbook’s Three Lean Product Development Links. Why are projects late? We spend a lot of time thinking about this very question at...
Component procurement time, component cost, and the variety of skills needed on most hardware development projects are greater and represent in our...
We agree. Hardware product development is different than software. So when we apply Agile principles, we need a different approach.
Making the trade-off between scope, schedule, and cost, and making decisions that maximize the top-level goal of making a profit is at the heart of...
Visual management allows you to have tangible everyday conversations about the work in progress -- it makes work visible. It's such...
Looking to refine your hardware development process? Here are 7 Lean and Agile principles to refine your process and deliver projects faster...
Welcome to Playbook’s Three Lean Product Development Links. Can Agile be applied to hardware development? It can. Here are three Lean links that...
Does this sound familiar? Intuitively you know visual project management software is worth the investment, but how do you effectively communicate the...
Manufacturers have known for years that one of the primary tenets of Lean is to identify what the customer...
Due to the popularity of our blog series on Applying Agile to hardware new product development projects, we decided to create an easily shareable...
Recently I came across an article on the Dummies.com website comparing the traditional Waterfall method (Phased and Gated) to the...
At Playbook, creating velocity in product development projects has been our passion for 18 years. As a result, we’ve analyzed Agile and other product...
There is no doubt project management methods have evolved and the traditional Phase Gate or...
Welcome to PLAYBOOK’s blog series: Three Lean Product Development Links. This week we cut straight to the chase with the three most popular blog...
Being an Aerospace Engineer by training, I find some parallels from time to time between product development systems and flight systems. One that I...
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