Welcome to the
Lean Development Resource Center!

The resources here will help you use lean strategy, technology and product development to launch products that delight your customers and outrun your competition.

If that sounds like an audacious claim, read some of our Case Studies taken from real world lean development implementations.

New to Lean Product Development?

• What is Lean About Product Development? This article surveys the landscape of approaches to lean product development.
• Learning to See Waste in Product Development Unlike the manufacturing floor, most waste in product development is invisible. Learn how to find it in this Knowledge Brief.
• LAMDA: PDCA for Knowledge Workers Rapid learning cycles are at the core of lean thinking. LAMDA is a rapid learning cycle with its roots in PDCA, but tailored for the world that product developers live in every day.

Listen to Two Sample Web Classes

• Lean Product Development Basics - Session 1: Lean PD Principles and Value Creation
  
  This is an introduction to lean product development, tailored for the absolute beginner. It introduces the four key value streams that product developers seek to optimize, describes how they link together and what waste looks like in each value stream. It concludes with a description of the approach to lean product development that consistently delivers at least 50% reductions in time to market.
  
• Lean Thinking for Front End Product Development - Session 1: Lean Strategy, Technology and Product Development
  
  Much of the waste in late product development has its root causes in the early stages of product development. This presentation describes how the four key value streams work together in early product development to address the root causes of waste in late product development.

Lean Development Learning Opportunities

At this site, we offer four different ways to accelerate your progress with lean development:

• Lean Development Resources: This site has articles, templates and other information to provide basic information about lean development.
• Web Learning: We offer two different web classes that provide basic information about lean development to give you the ability to learn in a structured experience over three months.
• Teleconferences: Enhanced and Premium members receive invitations to one free teleconference per quarter that drills into one aspect of lean development.
• Ask-A-Question: Premium members get the ability to ask questions from Katherine and her team to help provide continuous learning.