October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 27m
English
I freely admit that I didn't invent the concept of “Rapid Learning Cycles.” The phrase first appears, as far as I can tell, in a small book called The Lean PD Skills Book, self-published in 2004 by Dr. Allen Ward of the University of Michigan.1
Dr. Ward was one of the original researchers into Toyota's Product Development Process, alongside his more famous colleague, Jeffrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way.2 Then Mark Swets and Tim Schipper of Steelcase expanded on this idea in their book, Innovative Lean Development, published in 2010.3
Starting in 2011, a series of client engagements pulled the Rapid Learning Cycles framework together. These clients were in different ...
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