Many models of the design and development process have been published over the years,
representing it for different purposes and from different points of view. This article contributes …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of research on lean production
(LP) since the concept was developed at the end of the 1980s with the aim of developing a …

Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to
become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project …

Many companies allocate significant resources to implementing lean on the manufacturing
shop floor, but fewer resources to implementing lean in the product development processes …

This article develops a model of a project as a payoff function that depends on the state of
the world and the choice of a sequence of actions. A causal mapping, which may be …

Fast and dramatic changes in customer expectations, competition, and technology are
creating an increasingly uncertain environment. To respond, manufacturers are seeking to …

Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new
products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of …

The Project Management Institute, the most influential associa-tion governing the
professional discipline, defines project man-agement (PM) as the application of knowledge …

Projects are temporary production systems. When those systems are structured to deliver the
product while maximizing value and minimizing waste, they are said to be 'lean'projects …

This translation brings a landmark systems engineering (SE) book to English-speaking
audiences for the first time since its original publication in 1972. For decades the SE concept …