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Your Favorite Report is Delaying Your Project

David Paulson - 12/6/23 03:15 AM

Most companies are trying hard to achieve predictable end dates.

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Project Management: Do you know what the dark matter is in your project plan?

Elyssa Pallai - 04/15/21 03:03 PM

In 1925, Hubble was the first astronomer to prove that the universe was expanding. The reason for the expansion, Hubble explained, was dark matter....

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8 Tips for Adopting Lean Project Management

Eric Graves - 02/8/18 06:00 PM

Achieving project flow is what enables project teams to have greater confidence task completion and launch dates. At Playbook, we have found that...

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Innovation and Lean Product Development: Solving the LA Traffic Problem with Flow

Elyssa Pallai - 02/2/17 04:31 PM

New product development and innovation are the lifeblood of your company. This series explores innovation and what can happen when project teams...

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Innovation and Lean Product Development: Achieving Flow

Elyssa Pallai - 01/26/17 04:45 PM

Creating great products involves problem-solving at every stage of development.Sometimes the barriers faced by the team seem insurmountable and the...

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Is your project behind schedule? This could be why.

Elyssa Pallai - 11/1/16 04:37 PM

At PLAYBOOK we spend a lot of time thinking about how to speed up Lean product development projects. In fact, that’s mostly what we do. We take this...

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The invisible, nefarious cause of project delays …!

David Paulson - 10/27/16 05:11 PM

Lean Project Management - The Cause of Project Delays

In a previous blog post, I mentioned how electronic lean/agile/kanban visual project management...

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Prioritizing Hardware Projects at the Program Level

Paul DeLong - 10/12/16 06:21 PM

Prioritizing Projects at the Program Level

Have you ever imagined what it would be like working in a company where you were literally supporting 3 to...

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What is Lean Project Management for Hardware?

Elyssa Pallai - 09/13/16 04:19 PM

What is Lean project management?

Lean is any process improvement that substantially improves the throughput of your system, sustainably.

So, it is...

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Resource Leveling - A Step by Step Guide

Eric Graves - 08/30/16 06:05 PM

Resource leveling is the process of using a company's resources in the most efficient way possible. To some, high efficiency is the same as high...

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Agile Hardware Development: Playbook's Lean Links

Elyssa Pallai - 06/7/16 04:30 PM

Welcome to Playbook’s Three Lean Product Development Links. Can Agile be applied to hardware development? It can. Here are three Lean links that...

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Building great product development teams

Elyssa Pallai - 05/17/16 06:05 PM

So what makes a great product development team? Here are three Lean links that will make you rethink your approach to "team!"

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