Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles
"While innovation will always be messy business, the authors have eliminated much of the messiness. They have brought systematic thinking to something that does not lend itself to being systematic. … It shows how anyone can practice the principles of lean innovation."— Bart Huthwaite, Sr., Huthwaite Innovation Institute"This is truly a practitioner’s book. … If you follow the standards, you’ll be putting lean development in place, and more important, you’ll be ensuring the behaviors and practices that sustain it. … there is little mystery involved; these are things you can teach, expect, observe, and audit."— David Mann, David Mann Lean Consulting"… an interesting synthesis of all four schools, including the appropriate use of methods from lean manufacturing, especially management methods. … The authors provide a step-by-step plan for implementing rapid learning cycles in early product development. The illustrations and sample documents show what this process looks like in action. Additional chapters describe how to integrate rapid prototyping, reusable knowledge capture, and visual management into this system to eliminate the wastes of reinvention and excess project management overhead."—Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2012