Flexible Product Development

Name: Flexible Product Development
Brand: Preston Smith
Price: 36.75 AUD

Agile Hardware Development to Liberate Innovation

By: Preston G. Smith, John S. Farnbach (Foreword by), Lyn Doiron (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 22 November 2018

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320 Pages

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CHANGE presents a dilemma to product developers. It is the essence of innovation, for which developers strive. As they work every day, product developers discover improvements (innovation), but to incorporate these improvements, plans have to change.

Unfortunately, seasoned developers have learned that midproject change has a high price: schedule overruns, blown budgets, rework, and quality problems. To avoid such complications, it is safer to follow the original plan, leaving the change for the next project—or for a competitor!

Software developers have overcome this dilemma by discovering and applying so-called agile software development: small and dedicated teams, very short development cycles, early testing, and heavy customer involvement. These techniques are a blessing for software development, but they can’t be applied to non-software products directly, because they depend on the malleability of software.

This book dissects agile development, discovers its roots, and rebuilds a set of techniques that allow non-software developers to accommodate change during a project, thus resolving the dilemma of change for hardware products, too!

Industry Reviews

“Speed has always been a critical element in the product design

process. But, as Preston Smith points out, one must be extraordinarily

flexible as well in one's development and innovation

processes. In the light-speed world we live in today, as Smith so

poignantly points out, one's ability to use intelligent, knowledge

based flexibility is an imperative to winning each day, every day.”

—Michael D. Thieneman, executive vice president and chief technology

officer, Whirlpool Corporation

“Preston's previous book, Developing Products in Half the Time, was

chock-full of time-to-market gems. This one goes further, showing

time-to-market in a new light and providing even more wisdom

that's right on for today.”

—Chuck Blevins, director, Office of Program Management,

LifeScan, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)

“Preston provides exceptionally detailed treatment of techniques

to help any Program Manager lead difficult, constantly changing

projects. His many examples show how these tools work in the

real world.”

—Jim Callahan, senior program manager, C-Cor

“This book addresses what's concerned me lately: how to make

product development more effective and quicker. It emphasizes

that Project Leaders should manage decisions and risk rather

than tasks and processes, because decisions are what really drive

the project.”

—James Joseph Snyder, product development manager,

Medtronic, Inc.

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