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A reading list on set-based design (part of lean product development). Applied Fluid Technologies. Information on boat design. Baldwin, Carliss, and Kim Clark. Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity. MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 0262024667. Modularity and platforms, Continue reading Resources on Set-Based Design
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, by Donald Reinertsen. Celeritas Publishing, 2009. Lean product development can be looked at as flow-based product development. Reinertsen draws on a variety of areas (economics, queue theory, control theory, Continue reading Review – The Principles of Product Development Flow (Reinertsen)
Getting the Right Things Done. Pascal Dennis. LEI, 2006. A lean thinking book about “strategy deployment” – planning and execution. It’s in the form of a story mixed with explanation. Touches on a variety of tools: “True North,” PDCA, catchball, Continue reading Review – Getting the Right Things Done
Set-based concurrent engineering: considering a solution as the intersection of a number of feasible parts, rather than iterating on a bunch of individual “point-based” solutions. Continue reading Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
The Toyota Product Development System, James M. Morgan and Jeffrey K. Liker, Productivity Press, 2006. Toyota’s lean manufacturing system has had a lot of press, but lean influences their product development approach as well. This book emphasizes the system aspects Continue reading Review – The Toyota Product Development System
Bottlenecks and strategies. Continue reading Alistair Cockburn on Bottlenecks
Lean Solutions, James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. Free Press, 2005. These are the authors of The Machine that Changed the World. (The “machine” was lean production.) In this book, they expand on the idea of “lean consumption.” Their Continue reading Review – Lean Solutions
Training Within Industry as a source for lean ideas. Continue reading The Roots of Lean – Kaizen
Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, Michael N. Kennedy. Manning, 2004. Toyota’s lean manufacturing gets a lot of attention. But there’s also a Toyota approach to product development that’s less well known (though Mary Poppendieck does talk about it). This Continue reading Review – Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
Office Kaizen: Transforming Office Operations into a Strategic Competitive Advantage, William Lareau. ASQ, 2003. This book applies lean ideas to office work. Many of its ideas will be familiar to people in agile, but applied in the non-software world: charters, Continue reading Review – Office Kaizen