Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition

With six more years of implementation experience and responses from readers of the original 60,000 copies, the authors have sharpened the original tools and added new ones. Reinertsen In this era of global competition and accelerating product life cycles, the need to get new products to market faster is more compelling than ever. What was once considered fast development is now commonplace. The book's premise remains solid: time is worth money, and if you quantify this value you can buy time wisely, often to enormous advantage. It integrates po

Insightful & Highly Applicable I purchased Developing Products in Half the Time becaue it was one of the most frequently referenced books in a number of articles and papers that I read on rapid product development. The book begins by covering the topic of product development and the reasons there is interest in rapid product development. It then explores chapter by chapter the tools and best practices that are most applicable when trying to achieve rapid product development.I appreciated the books organization and approach because each of the tools can be . Bas Vodde said Useful tools for shortening development time. "Developing products in half the time" is a collection of tools and practices that can be used to speed up the release of your new products. The book provides a well-balanced view on how to cut the development time and especially what the trade-off is that you will probably make. Many of the tools and practice are only touched upon and would require a book on its own.Preston Smith and Donald Reinertsen start the book by tackling some important misconceptions about fast development. Their opinion is that it's not per definitio. "THE book about product development" according to Jose Papo. This book giver clear insights about product development in general. What amazed me when I read the first edition is that agile software development methodologies are clearly aligned with these book findings. Preston Smith and Reinertsen did an excellent job and succeded to create a better book in this new edition!Keep an eye open specially to the tools listed below(number is the corresponding chapter) and watch the link with agile processes: 2. Putting a Price Tag on Time --> how to convince upper management to do small rele

in engineering from Stanford. REINERTSEN has become one of the leading international experts on rapid product development since his breakthrough work in the early 1980s at McKinsey & Co. . SMITH has concentrated on helping companies to accelerate their development since 1984, both as an internal consultant and as an independent consultant. An electrical engineer and Harvard M.B.A., he teaches a popular executive course on produ

The topic of incremental innovation is crucial to us, and I really appreciate its balanced treatment." Ronald H. There are so many 'ah ha's' in each chapter you will never make it through with an old one." Don LaCombe, Ford Motor Company, Product Development Process Leadership "An excellent book with a strong treatment of the cycle-time consequences of overloading your development capacity. This book is one of the only sources of concepts, methods, and metrics for compressing this critical portion of the development process." David M. The new edition of this