Lean Product Development Workshop

This workshop can be customized to meet your needs, and is delivered at most locations internationally.

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Instructor: Kenneth A. Crow

We understand that every organization has its own culture and business objectives. Thus, we can customize the Lean Product Development Workshop to achieve your goals. For example:

• We can provide minimum to comprehensive training with a wide variety of modules

• We can work with your team on a specific project

• We can tailor the syllabus with the topics of special relevance to your teams

• We can offer the class in a single session, or break it up into several smaller meetings

• We can train your trainers and facilitators

Workshop Outline

1. LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

• Lean Product Development Objectives: Less Resources, Time, Cost & Waste
• The Five Lean Product Development Principles
  1. Define Value to the Customer
  2. Identify the Value Stream and Eliminate Waste
  3. Make the Value-Creating Steps Flow
  4. Empower the Team
  5. Learn and Improve
• Seventeen Practices and Tools of Lean Product Development

2. FIRST PRINCIPLE: DEFINE VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER

• Practice 1: Voice of the Customer
  • Developing Customer Focus as a Basis for Maximizing Customer Value
  • Starting Point: Understanding the Voice of the Customer
  • The Kano Model
  • Methods for Voice of the Customer Investigation
  • Digging Deeper than Stated Customer Needs with Observation
  • Determining the Value of Customer Needs with Conjoint Analysis
  • Organizing and Distilling Customer Needs with Affinity Diagramming and Customer FAST Diagrams
• Practice 2: Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  • Planning Products with Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to Assure a Correct Focus on Customer Needs
  • Competitive Analysis: Developing the Product Strategy and the Customer Value Proposition
  • Maximize the Value Proposition - Avoid Unnecessary/Low Priority Functions, Features and Capabilities
  • Making Tradeoffs to Maximize Customer Value
• Practice 3: Lean Design
  • Target Costing - A Basis for Customer Value
  • Applying Design to Cost (DTC) to Achieve a Target Cost
  • Exercise: Deriving a Target Cost
  • A Comprehensive Approach to DTC Achievement During the Four Development Phases
    • Concept Development
    • Assembly Design
    • Part Design/Selection
    • Process Design
  • Value Engineering & Function Analysis
  • Exercise: Function Analysis
  • Brainstorming and Other Creativity Techniques
  • Design for Manufacturability/Assembly (DFM/A)
  • Exercise: Design for Manufacturability/Assembly
  • Early Supplier Involvement and Supplier Cost Reduction
• Practice 4: Platforms and Product Re-Use
  • The Benefits of Product/Technology Platforms
  • Planning and Managing Platform Development
  • Design Re-Use and Standardization
• Practice 5: Rapidly Explore Alternatives
  • Impediments to Exploring Alternatives
  • Point-Based Design vs. Set-Based Design
  • Concept Selection Method and Case Study

3. SECOND PRINCIPLE: IDENTIFY THE VALUE STREAM AND REMOVE WASTE

• Practice 6: Streamline the Development Process
  • Lean Gate Review Process to Streamline the Development Process
  • Creating a Flexible, Adaptable Development Process
  • Removing Waste from the Product Development Process
  • The Seven Wastes in Product Development
  • Value Stream Mapping and Process Mapping to Identify and Remove Waste
• Practice 7: 5S Workplace
  • Applying the 5S Concepts to Product Development
  • Sort, Straighten and Sweep Project Data
  • Use PLM to Systemitize Product Data
• Practice 8: Standardize Work
  • Standardize the Development Process to Simplify Planning and Avoid Relearning
  • Develop and Apply Architecture and Design Standards to Avoid Reinvention

4. THIRD PRINCIPLE: MAKE THE VALUE CREATING STEPS FLOW

• Practice 9: Pipeline Management
  • Use of Portfolio Management to Prioritize Projects
  • Build a Business Case and Use a Phase-Gate Process to Minimize Waste with Less Opportune Projects
  • Control the Product Pipeline to Avoid Overload and Reduce Cycle Time
  • Queuing Theory and the Impact of Pipeline Overload
  • Defining Capacity and Determining Project Resource Requirements
  • Planning Overall Resource Requirements
  • Actions to Address Resource Overload and Manage the Pipeline
• Practice 10: Flow Process and Pull Scheduling
  • Impact of Utilization of Queue Time and Leadtime
  • Project Staffing and Implications on Project Performance
  • Use Project Milestones to Pull Scheduling of Activities
  • Critical Chain Project Management - a Method for Lean Project Management
  • Creating a Cadence with Product Development to Maintain a Smooth Flow Through the Product Pipeline
  • Bead Exercise
• Practice 11: Reduced Batch Sizes
  • Effect of Cycle Time, Resource Utilization and Batch Size
  • Architecture Principles for Reduced Batch Sizes
  • Move Platform Development Offline
  • How to Reduce Batch Sizes with Hardware Development
  • How to Reduce Batch Sizes with Software Development
• Practice 12: Synchronize Activities
  • Focus on Interfaces and Handoffs
  • Colloction Improves Coordination and Communication
  • Applying Visual Management Techniques, a Standard Lean Practice, to Product Development
• Practice 13: Defer Commitment
  • Avoid Changes by Deferring Commitment
  • Steps to Defer Commitment
  • Enabling Architecture

5. FOURTH PRINCIPLE: EMPOWER THE TEAM

• Practice 14: Cross-Functional Team
  • Cross Functional Teams Create a Product Development Workcell
  • Relationship to Functional Management vs. Program Management
  • Steps to Create Effective Cross-Functional Teams
  • Importance of Collocation or Virtual Collocation
  • Exercise: Cross-Functional Team
• Practice 15: Workforce Empowerment
  • Empowerment as a Basis for Lean Product Development
  • What Does Empowerment Mean?
  • Pushing Down Decision-Making to Lowest Effective Level
• Practice 16: Right Resources
  • Going Beyond Assignment to Adequate Involvement
  • Impact of Experience and Skill Level on Team Effectiveness

6. FIFTH PRINCIPLE: LEARN AND IMPROVE

• Practice 17: Amplify Learning
  • The Learning Enterprise: "Do it right the first time" or "Fail often and fail early"
  • Prototyping, Learning and Feedback
  • Advance Quality Planning or Like Product and Process Review
  • Project Reviews as a Learning Mechanism
  • Closed-Loop Improvement Approach

7. LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY

• Summary - The Product Development Factory
• Transition to a Lean Product Development Environment
• Structuring an Action Plan for Improvement
• Workshop Wrap-Up and Final Questions

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If for any reason you are not satisfied, write to us within 30 days after attending the workshop and return the course materials and we'll arrange for you to receive a full refund - hassle-free!