Donald Reinertsen
President, Reinertsen & Associates, USA
For over 30 years Don has been a thought leader in product development. His latest award-winning book, The Principles of Product Development FLOW, has been praised as, “… quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy.”
Presentation
CREATING FLOW IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: THE SCIENCE
In manufacturing all prescriptions for improving flow involve reducing variability. However, since variability constantly accompanies innovation, this is very bad advice for product developers. Fortunately, we can engineer systems that perform well in the presence of variability. By using some solid science and economics we can find ways to thrive in the presence of variability. In this presentation Don will examine the practical methods of Second Generation Lean Product Development and why they work.
Workshop
THE PRINCIPLES OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FLOW: AN INTRODUCTION OF THE SCIENCE OF AGILITY
This two-day course will focus on:
- Developing a economic framework for making fact-based decisions
- Creating simpler and better requirements
- Saving time in the Fuzzy Front End
- Reducing batch sizes throughout development processes
- Creating fast feedback loops
- Organizing cross-functional teams
- Quantifying the cost of process queues
- Methods for controlling WIP
- Using economically-based priority systems like WSJF
- Managing technical and market risk
