While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

The value stream represents so many processes and activities that refining them individually is nearly impossible. The only way to do it is to harness and distribute process information to the right ...

At least half of all product launches fail to live up to companies’ expectations. For every four projects that enter development, only one makes it to market, according to a recent study at Georgetown ...

IBM Rational's MCIF offers a twist on Kaizen, a lean manufacturing mainstay and the process of "continuous improvement" practiced by Toyota for 50 years I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in ...

Is it possible to apply the lean manufacturing approach to software development? The authors of this paper spent several years analyzing software projects at Wipro Technologies, a large Indian ...

What is Lean Software Development? Your email has been sent We discuss the Lean software development methodology and how it benefits developers and project managers. Learn more. The Lean software ...

Managing product development from design through the end of service life allows product managers to use business systems that integrate data and processes to enable effective support. Product life ...

Lean Six Sigma is a management tool focused on achieving quality by identifying defects in the design of any product or process and eliminating them before the product or service ever reaches a ...

The small business environment today is very dynamic and competitive, and new product development is a crucial process if you want to survive. For small enterprises to withstand competition from ...