A Framework for Organizing Lean Product Development

Abstract

:While in the last 20 years a large number of frameworks have been presented in literature, currently there is no consensus on how to define Lean Product Development (PD). We used content analysis to investigate existing approaches and integrated them into a single, coherent framework consisting of 11 Lean PD components. To better understand the nature of the novel definition of Lean PD, we conducted a theoretical investigation of the component interdependencies. We hypothesize that Lean PD needs to be understood as a system of highly interwoven components that only in their concurrency lead to high performance in PD.