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The Lean Product Development Guidebook : Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time-to-Market

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Title: The Lean Product Development Guidebook : Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time-to-Market
Author: Ronald Mascitelli
ISBN: 096626973X / 9780966269734
Format: Spiral Bound
Pages: 308
Publisher: Technology Perspectives
Year: 2007
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The Lean Product Development Guidebook describes over two dozen powerful and practical methods for slashing development waste and improving resource utilization, spanning the full spectrum from inception to successful product launch. An integrated methodology for slashing time to market is presented, based on best in class practices gathered from Toyota Motor Company and many other leading firms. This book includes over 150 figures and diagrams, and is rich with real-world examples and step-by-step instructions. A comprehensive and immediately deployable approach to maximizing speed and profitability.

Acknowledgments
Introduction - About this Guidebooks

Part I : The Benefits of Lean Product Development
Section 1.1 :
How Time Impacts New Product Success
Section 1.2 : Learning to See New Product Development Waste
Section 1.3 : A Working Definition of Value

Part II : Selecting and Prioritizing Development Projects
Section 2.1 :
What Defines a Great Product?
Section 2.2 : Too Many Projects, Too Few Resources
Section 2.3 : A Simple Way to Manage Technical Risk
Section 2.4 : Project Sensitivity Analysis

Part III : Building a Lean Product Development Process
Section 3.1 :
What's Your "Organization Number"?
Section 3.2 : From Silos to Gates to Continuous Flow
Section 3.3 : Managing Quality, Risk, and Change
Section 3.4 : Manufacturability : The "How's it Built?" Review
Section 3.5 : Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

Part IV : Establishing Product Design Requirements
Section 4.1 :
Customer Perception and Product Value
Section 4.2 : Must / Should / Could Prioritization
Section 4.3 : An Overview of Set-Based Design

Part V : Rapid Project Execution
Section 5.1 :
Exception-Driven Status Reporting
Section 5.2 : Stand-up Meetings and Visual Project Boards
Section 5.3 : Time-Slicing and "Project Time"
Section 5.4 : Lean Scheduling and Value Milestones
Section 5.5 : E-mail Rules, Lean Meetings, and Other Time-Savers
Section 5.6 : Conquering Batches, Queues, and Resource Bottlenecks

Part VI : Focus on Improvement
Section 6.1 :
Value-Stream Mapping and Kaizen Events
Section 6.2 : The Lean Self-Assessment Tool
Section 6.3 : A Proven Strategy for Deployment

Recommended Reading in Lean Product Development
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

 
 
 
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