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While you may ignore economics, it won’t ignore you. —Don Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow Principle #1 – Take an economic view Realizing the goal of Lean—achieving the shortest…

If you only quantify one thing, quantify the Cost of Delay. —Don Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow [1] Weighted Shortest Job First Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is…

…software, product, and systems development are now deep and extensive [5]. For example, Ward [6], Reinertsen [7], Poppendieck [8], Kersten [9], Leffingwell [10], and others have described aspects of Lean…

…value – In the pursuit of efficiency, everyone is assigned to 100% capacity, often to multiple projects. However, Reinertsen notes that “operating a product development process near full utilization is…

100% utilization drives unpredictability. —Don Reinertsen Innovation and Planning Iteration The Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration is a unique, dedicated iteration that occurs every PI. It provides an estimating buffer…

…primarily model-based or paper-prototypes. (Note: Reinertsen points out that maintaining various design options is a type of u-curve optimization, and sometimes the optimum number of choices is one. [3]) However,…

…decision. Simply put, the decision-maker can take a ‘centralized decision’ on behalf of those below them in the chain or ‘decentralize the decision’ to a level below. Reinertsen [4] emphasizes…

The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became. —Don Reinertsen Create the Implementation Plan This is article seven in the SAFe® Implementation Roadmap series. Click…

…River Press, Inc, 1990 [4] Oosterwal, Dantar P. The Lean Machine. AMACOM, 2010 [5] Reinertsen, Donald G. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. Celeritas, 2009….