In a previous blog post I explained (and hopefully convinced you) that measuring “percent complete” literally causes your projects to take longer.
In a previous blog post I explained (and hopefully convinced you) that measuring “percent complete” literally causes your projects to take longer.
Would you believe that a 10% increase in the workload on your teams could double the length of a project?
Most companies are trying hard to achieve predictable end dates.
Not that long ago multitasking used to be considered a valuable skill. Thankfully that belief has been proven wrong, but for some reason a lot of...
One of the most difficult things about making process improvements is knowing where to start. Doing the wrong thing is a waste of time and money, and...
Running a daily standup meeting seems pretty simple right? After all it’s just another meeting. Well not really. The daily stand-up process is...
In the next three posts we discuss Agile principles and how to apply the principles in hardware development. In this post we look at delivering...
In order to examine risk exposure and uncertainty in greater detail, let's look at the different types of risks --uncertain events...
We begin the analysis phase and look at risk drivers and the 5 Whys technique - a simple and powerful technique for discovering the root of the...
Mitigating a risk essentially means deliberately doing something to reduce risk exposure - to burn down the...
In a previous post we discussed that there is no doubt project management methods have evolved and...
Risk management has four steps. It is cyclical, and each risk, issue, question, and opportunity is put through the process as quickly as possible....
Product development is a risky business. So how do you effectively minimize the impact of risks on your project? In short, you...
This is the fifth part of our series on Lean Project Management. In this post, we look at resource management.
This is the second part of our series on Lean Agile Project Management.
In Part 1 we recognized that one of the primary drivers of success in product...
Feeling like you are using the wrong tools to achieve your product development goals?
This is Part 1 of a series of posts on Lean Project Management
The Return on Investment in project risk management is high, and therefore worth the effort.
Why is Gantt and Kanban such a killer combination in hardware development for accelerating projects? Some of you may instantly recoil at the mere...
Feeling like you are using the wrong tools to achieve your product development goals?
This is Part 2 of a series of posts on Lean product...
Feeling like you are using the wrong tools to achieve your product development goals?
This is Part 1 of a series of posts on Lean Project Management...
While on a recent trip to New Zealand to ramp up a new client, I took a little time after work to see some sights. Coincidently, I was also...
I often hear companies use the excuse that their culture is preventing them from adopting Lean product development, or making other positive changes....
In the previous two blogs I made a compelling case for Lean Product Development being the business opportunity of the century, and then gave an...
As engineers we are empowered to create great things - develop innovations that change the world. In order to make these innovations a reality, we...
There seems to be some confusion about which works best for the hardware development process. This makes...
This series is a comprehensive review of Agile and how to apply Agile to hardware product development.We look...
So how do you make hardware development more Agile? In this part, part 5, we examine Agile's 3 and...
Welcome to Playbook’s Three Lean Product Development Links. Why are projects late? We spend a lot of time thinking about this very question at...
We agree. Hardware product development is different than software. So when we apply Agile principles, we need a different approach.
At PLAYBOOK we spend a lot of time thinking about how to speed up Lean product development projects. In fact, that’s mostly what we do. We take this...
Making the trade-off between scope, schedule, and cost, and making decisions that maximize the top-level goal of making a profit is at the heart of...
Have you ever imagined what it would be like working in a company where you were literally supporting 3 to...
Welcome to Playbook’s Three Lean Links. Innovating quickly is on the top of everyone's agenda. But streamlining your hardware development process to...
Looking to refine your hardware development process? Here are 7 Lean and Agile principles to refine your process and deliver projects faster...
What is Lean Product Development? The Lean landscape is confusing because there are many flavors of Lean. But here is our definition...
Welcome to Playbooks’s three Lean Product Development links. Innovation is on everyone's minds. It's a primary driver of company profit. Here are...
It's critical to capture the objects impacted by a risk in order to understand risk exposure, as well as...
Looking to create flow and improve your delivery timelines? In this post we share 3 free Lean training resources, including our on-demand webinar...
This post is a bit off the topic of Lean, but totally on topic for everyone interested in integrated product development. The changes taking place...
Welcome to Playbook’s Three Lean Product Development Links. Can Agile be applied to hardware development? It can. Here are three Lean links that...
Does this sound familiar? Intuitively you know visual project management software is worth the investment, but how do you effectively communicate the...
Manufacturers have known for years that one of the primary tenets of Lean is to identify what the customer...
Evaluating risks starts by defining and understanding a project’s objectives. If there aren’t any objectives,...
At Playbook, creating velocity in product development projects has been our passion for 18 years. As a result, we’ve analyzed Agile and other product...
There is no doubt project management methods have evolved and the traditional Phase Gate or...
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