The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE BOOK TO LEARN: HOW INNOVATION PRINCIPLES CAN HELP YOU:
- Why Rapid Learning principles are the key to faster product development and innovation
- How to adapt software methodologies like Agile to work for tangible products that obey the laws of physics, chemistry and biology
- Why most companies do things in new product development that actually slow their programs down, and how fix them
What You'll Find Inside:
The Rapid Learning Cycles Framework
We’ll describe the breakthrough system that our product developers use to get their best ideas to market faster.
Inside the Learning Cycle
We’ll explain what teams do differently to build and capture the knowledge that accelerates development.
Integration, Metrics and Troubleshooting
We’ll give you guidance on how to measure progress, address challenges and integrate the RLC framework into your PDP.
AGILE FOR HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT
This book will show you why Agile software development has good ideas for hardware developers, what elements of Agile are most applicable and which ones should be ignored or heavily adapted.
- The aspects of Agile Software Development that have been demonstrated to work well for hardware
- The assumptions embedded in Agile SW that don’t apply to physical products — and why they can get HW teams into trouble as the product gets closer to launch
- The missing pieces that HW teams need to realize the benefits from Agile practices
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1000+ HAPPY READERS
Jason Anderson, Trimble Corporation
“RLCI has shown how to pull together a combination of agile software management techniques within phase-gate development, with a process to follow, and made it easier to ask my organization to implement it. The response has been very positive.”
Tauranga, New Zealand
WHAT OTHERS SAY
“The author presents a well-tested and adaptable framework for managing the thousand-and-one unknowns in new product development in a way which significantly accelerates progress.”
Kathy Iberle
Iberle Consulting Group, Inc.
United States
“I was concerned that the R&D executives would not buy into this. But the simplicity and logic of the approach made this an easier sell.”
Vaas Conradie
Gallagher
New Zealand
“Easy to read and a must for everybody involved in improving product development performance.”
Christophe Gregoir
Atlas Copco
Belgium
Author Spotlight
Katherine Radeka
” When you can get your best ideas to market faster, you and your team wins, your company wins, and your customers win.
Katherine is an internationally-recognized expert on innovation and product development who has helped hundreds of engineers and scientists to get their best ideas to market faster.
Author of the Shingo Research Award-winning book, The Mastery of Innovation, High Velocity Innovation, and When Agile Gets Physical.
She has accelerated innovation on every continent except Antarctica and in industries from aerospace to alternative energy. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington.
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