In previous posts I’ve written about reports that are meaningless, misleading, and even damaging. (Yes, the last one actually causes your projects to...
In previous posts I’ve written about reports that are meaningless, misleading, and even damaging. (Yes, the last one actually causes your projects to...
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.
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...
Here is a simple formula for quickly estimating Cost of Delay: the profit lost per-month of delay.
Total COD = Lost Month Cost + Peak Reduction Cost.
Yes, Agile principles can be applied with benefit in hardware product development (Agile hardware development). However, Agile's...
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...
Agile principle 2: Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.
Software and hardware product development teams share important...
If you want your product development projects to run smoothly, you need to have a regular cadence for long-term planning, short-term planning, and...
A daily standup meeting or scrum meeting is a daily 15-min long meeting where each person spends a few minutes preparing, a few minutes discussing...
A lot has been said over the last several years about the fallacy of increased productivity when a person multitasks. Lean, Agile, and the Theory of...
This is the ninth part in our in-depth series on Lean Agile project management.
We've covered a variety of Lean principles that have a direct impact...
What is the difference between push vs pull?
In a pull system, teams pull tasks from the backlog. As opposed to a push system where work is pushed...
This is the fifth part of our series on Lean Project Management. In this post, we look at resource management.
A fundamental principle of Lean is smooth, continuous flow. Flow is achieved by eliminating turbulence caused when the flow through any process is...
Our mission is to help engineers love their jobs. It’s what we do. So what makes people love their jobs?
Gallup gathered data from over a million...
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...
So how do you increase certainty in project decisions. In part we can increase certainty by increasing the accuracy of our impact estimates.
How do you make project decisions based on their impact on profit? Here are some...
In order to make project decisions such as whether or not to add a new feature, we need an economic model. Cost of Delay is one input into this...
Why is Gantt and Kanban such a killer combination in hardware development for accelerating projects? Some of you may instantly recoil at the mere...
In this post I want to step back from the details in the series on the underlying principles and why they are so important and instead take a quick...
Taking a product from idea to launch is not a simple task. Projects are complex and when you are dealing in the world of hardware development, you...
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...
At PLAYBOOK it's our mission to help you change the world faster! So, we have a number of free resources available on our website to help you on your...
The first attempt to implement Lean product development is critical. If you don’t get it right, there will be more resistance on the next attempt....
Effective product development teams are proactive learners. They thrive on change and active discovery and problem solving. In this environment, the...
This is Part 7 in a series of posts discussing Cost of Delay and making objective decisions in new product development, based on economic analysis.
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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...
Component procurement time, component cost, and the variety of skills needed on most hardware development projects are greater and represent in our...
We agree. Hardware product development is different than software. So when we apply Agile principles, we need a different approach.
We had a chance to talk to Robert Pendergrass, Engineering Manager, about SensorLink's experience with Playbook.
SensorLink develops advanced...
Does this sound familiar? Intuitively you know visual project management software is worth the investment, but how do you effectively communicate the...
Looking for some new material on Lean thinking? This week we have a smorgasbord of big ideas from Don Reinertsen, Michael Balle and the Lean...
This is a guest post by Richard Lindstrom from eBOM based in Sweden. eBOM provides cutting edge Lean consulting for R&D companies like SenSair,...
Due to the popularity of our blog series on Applying Agile to hardware new product development projects, we decided to create an easily shareable...
David Paulson, our CEO was recently interviewed by Chad McAllister on his blog, "The Everyday...
Our value added reseller, eBOM, based in Sweden is attending LPPDE Europe and has shared some interesting images and insights into what's happening...
The series explores the relationship between Lean Startup Principles, Knowledge Based Product Development, and Project Risk Management, and how they...
There has been a lot of discussion about Lean Startup principles and whether they apply to hardware...
Product development should be fun, exciting, predictable, and of course profitable too. We also believe it is possible to have schedules that satisfy...
At Playbook, we work with a lot of great Fortune 500 companies that are adopting...
Being an Aerospace Engineer by training, I find some parallels from time to time between product development systems and flight systems. One that I...
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