The Lean Product Development Process: How Learning Cycles, SBCE, Integration Events and Phase Gates Fit Together
Key Takeaways:
- Rapid Learning Cycles, Integration Events, Convergence and SBCE combine to build the Lean Product Development Process.
- Groups transition from a stage-gate PDP to the Lean PDP in a series of learning cycles that build on each other to reduce late design loopbacks and other problems.
- Rapid Learning Cycles are the first step for most product development teams.
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Author:
Katherine Radeka
Source:
LPDRC
Created:
January 28th, 2012
Updated:
January 28th, 2012
Planning for Set-Based Concurrent Engineering: How to Keep a Complex Process in Synch
Key Takeaways:
- Successful SBCE depends upon a good Integration Plan, and an understanding of how the unanswered questions depend upon each other.
- The whole team lays out the big picture but sub-teams plan their own daily work.
- Integration Events keep the whole team in sync, moving towards the common goal.
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Author:
Katherine Radeka
Source:
LPDRC
Created:
January 20th, 2011
Updated:
January 20th, 2011
Eliminate the Weak: How Probing for Weaknesses Leads to Better Design Decisions in SBCE
Key Takeaways:
- We get the best results from convergence processes like SBCE when we eliminate weak alternatives instead of selecting winners.
- Convergence tests that probe for weaknesses are more likely to find problems that could cause design loopbacks later in development.
- Decision tables can help a team eliminate alternatives that are clearly not worth any investment - but they cannot substitute for a convergent decision-making process.
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Author:
Katherine Radeka
Source:
LPDRC
Created:
February 24th, 2011
Updated:
February 24th, 2011