The decisions we make and the work we do in product development have a significant impact on organizations, individuals, and society often locking in costs, financial and environmental, for years. Lean product and process development (lppd) is a holistic framework guided by principles with proven practices that enable organizations to successfully develop products and services that are valuable for users and profitable for organizations.
Guiding principles, based on decades of research and practical experience*, of lean product and process development are:
- Putting People First
- Developing Products is a Team Sport
- Understanding before Executing
- Synchronizing Workflows
- Building in Learning and Knowledge Reuse
- Designing the Value Stream
Lean Product and Process Development Workshop: Designing the Future: A Lean Product Development Immersive Learning Experience
LPPD Articles:
- Pathways to reduce emissions
- Seeing and Understanding the Work in Product and Process Development
- Coach’s Corner: How To Put People First Using Lean Practices
- Coach’s Corner: Designing the Entire Value Stream From Concept to Product End Life
- Coach’s Corner: How to Design a Knowledge-Sharing System
- Why it’s Better to Focus on Value, Not Waste
- How a virtual obeya can enable effective teamwork
- The Value of A Visual Schedule is Developing Shared Understanding
- The Dark Side of Concurrent Engineering
- 12 Wastes of Product & Process Development
- Cutting Carbon Emissions and Product Costs Through Lean Product and Process Development
- How Do You Know What Your Product or Service Needs to Be?
- Better Design Reviews, Better Products
- What are the key traits I should look for in a potential Chief Engineer?
- Generating Multiple Alternatives is Not Necessarily Waste
- What’s a good “small step” to start off my LPPD transformation?
* The Machine that Changed the World, the book that introduced lean principles to the masses, included a chapter on product development based on the research of Takahiro Fujimoto, Andrew Graves, Kentaro Nobeoka, and Antony Sheriff. Further research was conducted on lean product and process development at the University of Michigan by Allen Ward, Jeffrey Liker, Durward Sobek, Jim Morgan, and Katrina Appell. Jim Morgan aligned on these lean product and process development (lppd) guiding principles from the experience of putting lppd into practice by him and his colleagues including Katrina Appell, John Drogosz, Eric Ethington, and Matt Zayko.