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The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
Today's product development orthodoxy is broken. What's wrong? Companies are pursuing the wrong goals. They maximize capacity utilization, and wonder why cycle times are so long. They strive to conform to plan, and wonder why new obstacles constantly emerge. They try to eliminate variability, and wonder why innovation disappears. They carefully break processes into phases
...moreHardcover, 276 pages
Published
May 29th 2009
by Celeritas Publishing
(first published May 14th 2009)
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I had very high expectations for this book. I've had it recommended by a number of people - and thought I would really benefit from reading it.
It does add value, but Mr. Reinertsen is making some obvious mistakes that makes me doubt the more valuable parts of the book.
The book's format is inspired by the world of physics, and is providing 100+ principles that to some extend build on top of each other. This unfortunately also means that if one is a fallacy, the rest could be impacted.
Mr. Reinerts...more
It does add value, but Mr. Reinertsen is making some obvious mistakes that makes me doubt the more valuable parts of the book.
The book's format is inspired by the world of physics, and is providing 100+ principles that to some extend build on top of each other. This unfortunately also means that if one is a fallacy, the rest could be impacted.
Mr. Reinerts...more
In this book the author gives a series of principles, most of which are based on solid science, for a more effective development of products under uncertainty and variability.
It struck me as being a more bottom-up exposition of the same principles that underlie the agile movement for software development. However, instead of giving us principles that have been tried and found working, here we are also being told why, scientifically, these ideas work.
It's a fascinating book, but not to be read in...more
It struck me as being a more bottom-up exposition of the same principles that underlie the agile movement for software development. However, instead of giving us principles that have been tried and found working, here we are also being told why, scientifically, these ideas work.
It's a fascinating book, but not to be read in...more
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It has ruined my life, in that I see the queues and bad decisions being made everywhere around me know from not considering the economic factors that go into making a good choice.
This book is highly recommended as a way to deepen your understanding of Lean, especially in the product development field. I had a hard time in some places relating it to software development, since the products Reinertson talks about most of the time are physical products being...more
This book is highly recommended as a way to deepen your understanding of Lean, especially in the product development field. I had a hard time in some places relating it to software development, since the products Reinertson talks about most of the time are physical products being...more
Donald Reinertsen is definitely out on the cutting edge of thinking about how to design product development processes. This book is full of ideas from disciplines as diverse as operating system design, telecommunications and the US marine corps all of which have interesting things to say about product development. My main complaint is that he includes so much new material that his ideas can only be sketched out, and many of the ideas are so far away from current practice that they need much more...more
Don Reinertsen's book is somewhat difficult to review. There are two aspects to a book: the information it contains, and the way in which it is presented, and since my take on these two aspects of so different, I wish to speak about them separately.
In terms of the information contained in the book, it is phenomenal. Reinertsen basically takes the principles of Lean Manufacturing and explains the ways in which they can apply to product development and the ways in which they cannot. For the princi...more
In terms of the information contained in the book, it is phenomenal. Reinertsen basically takes the principles of Lean Manufacturing and explains the ways in which they can apply to product development and the ways in which they cannot. For the princi...more
Anyone considering themselves as part of the Lean-outside-manufacturing community should read this - it's the scientific and economic basis for *why* the flow aspects of Lean work in the context of time to market criticality and high variance, and full of practical advise on *what* this should look like.
It's entirely waffle free to the point of terseness, and so full of good solid advice and 'aha!' moment explanations that I had to resort to the highlighter just to help me prioritise. I now have...more
It's entirely waffle free to the point of terseness, and so full of good solid advice and 'aha!' moment explanations that I had to resort to the highlighter just to help me prioritise. I now have...more
Reinertsen have written a classic on product development with a wealth of good advise and principles on improving development.
Much of the advise is equally applicable for any other activity requiring management of dynamic and complex systems. It is equally useful for any other type of learning or knowledge work.
Reinertsen uses economy, informations theory and lean thinking as a basis and draws many other fields of study to accomodate the dynamic and complex nature of product development.
The i...more
Much of the advise is equally applicable for any other activity requiring management of dynamic and complex systems. It is equally useful for any other type of learning or knowledge work.
Reinertsen uses economy, informations theory and lean thinking as a basis and draws many other fields of study to accomodate the dynamic and complex nature of product development.
The i...more
A no-nonsense, 'hey here's the math' approach to tackling development issues.
Presented as a set of principles, Flow can be read cover-to-cover or used as a reference guide. Reinertsen establishes the economical foundation for many current trends including 6Sigma, lean manufacturing, and Agile software development.
Presented as a set of principles, Flow can be read cover-to-cover or used as a reference guide. Reinertsen establishes the economical foundation for many current trends including 6Sigma, lean manufacturing, and Agile software development.
everybody talks about agile, and better ways. most miss the real point: profit. if the bottom line shows a profit you were a success. this book shows that often the obvious ways to develop product cheaper in the long run is more expensive than the less efficiant methods!
This is a textbook approach to teaching agile development principles at a management level. I think it is generally good, if not a bit lacking in context. It combines many books and ideas about agile product development -- it's a "best of" type of book.
Having worked in product development my entire career, I understand the points being made. The principles apply to a wide variety of development scenarios. I like how it differentiates between manufacturing and product development. A lot of older...more
Having worked in product development my entire career, I understand the points being made. The principles apply to a wide variety of development scenarios. I like how it differentiates between manufacturing and product development. A lot of older...more
There are plenty of good advices on the math underlying product development, and this math affects your projects a lot. Unfortunately, a lot of this math is treated as given, some more recaps would have come in handy sometimes.
Some information is hard to follow, but challenging way to look at an Engineering or Product Development cycle vs. the standard "Lean Manufacturing" model that most companies try to push throughout an organization.
On of the best books on project and product development management I've read in a while. A bit esoteric if you're not into this kinda thing. One of the rare busi ess books that i,ve read cover to cover of late.
The best book on lean product (incl software) development I've seen. All the underlying principles of Lean and Agile are broken down in to roughly page-long descriptions, with background theory and practical examples. This is probably the most important book I've read after The Goal and The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving.
A very dense read with lots of useful principles for improving the flow of work through your development team.
A should-read book on product development for knowledge workers and entrepreneurs.
Great book on product development
Why do we want to change the product development process? The answer is - to increase profits. At least on this assumption is based the theory of the book. At some points I missed the distinction between short-term and long-term goals. Not to mention that not everything can be expressed in dollars. Nevertheless, this is one of the best books I know about product development.
So far, this book contains more applicable and useful ways of thinking about producing a product development & commercialization system than anything I've read in the last ten years. I am about 20 pages in.
Great foundation theory for Kanban systems in knowledge work organizations. It's a book that must be kept always next to you for continuous reference.
A must read if you want to take lean to the next level.
A couple of eons beyond where we are at :-/
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