Product development brings with it many misconceptions about what the process is truly like and how to ensure you're getting the most out of those you've hired to help. Be it product design, ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

In a consumer-driven economy, meeting customers' needs and wants has become paramount in generating long-term success and growth. Product development is key to maintaining and acquiring customers and ...

Product development programs meet two types of measurable goals – goals that relate to the product itself and goals that integrate product development with broader business goals. Product-related ...

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Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. In all things worth pursuing, there exists the ever-present ...

In the software industry, the product development cycle is broken. It’s costly. It’s laborious. And too often, product teams fail to meet their customers’ needs. And this is especially true in the ...

Twenty years ago, I was part of a team at a large financial services company building one of the first online wealth-management tools. While it was transformational at the time and really a huge ...