Technology Development Streams: Product and Technology Road Maps that Flow
Key Takeaways:
- Big Batch Product Development contains a great deal of waste, especially the wastes of invention-on-schedule and reinvention.
- Technology development streams enable companies to release technology into the market sooner and with less technical and business risk.
- Technology and product roadmaps work together to help an organization manage its technology development streams.
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Author:
Katherine Radeka
Created:
September 8th, 2008
Updated:
March 20th, 2012
The Lean Research Group: Lean Practices for Strategic Technology Development
Key Takeaways:
- Early research and development groups keep major technical risks out of the product development teams, which makes product development more predictable.
- Lean encourages researchers to think scientifically about how they develop technology.
- Lean practices like Critical Questions, Rapid Learning Cycles and Knowledge Supermarkets directly address the problems that many of these groups experience.
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Author:
Katherine Radeka
Source:
LPDRC
Created:
February 24th, 2012
Updated:
February 24th, 2012
Technology Roadmaps: Strategic Plans for Identifying and Capturing Reusable Technical Knowledge
Key Takeaways:
- Technology roadmaps are models to show how long term strategic objectives lead to specific technology development needs.
- The most effective technology roadmaps make the strategic intent behind technology decisions visible on a time scale that clarifies current levels of investment.
- Organizations usually need multiple technology roadmaps to support different areas of technology or specific strategic objectives.
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Author:
Katherine Radeka
Source:
LPDRC
Created:
March 3rd, 2011
Updated:
March 3rd, 2011