Product Development Process

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The emphasis has moved to the performance of small teams collaborating and self-managing their work. Lean Product Development & Agile Methods are a special implementation of a lean transformation that leverages the whole organisation to bring value to the customer. The principles of a lean product development process include:

1. Clearly define customer value.
2. Explore all alternative solutions early on.
3. Create a development process that loads all steps of the process evenly.
4. Use standardisation to reduce variation and increase predictability.
5. Appoint a ‘chief engineer’ with end-to-end ownership
6. Ensure that inter-departmental integration and functional expertise are balanced.
7. Relentlessly pursue technical competence.
8. Integrate suppliers into the development system.
9. Build problem-solving and relentless improvement into the process.
10. Ensure technologies adapt to your people and process
11. Align the organisation with simple visual communication.
12. Emphasise standardisation and organisational learning.

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These 12 principles are a refinement of our five core dimensions of a lean transformation that emphasise the longer-term development of people and processes to deliver real customer value and great customer experience.