
140 • Lean Product Development: Make it Work!
WHEN TO USE PROCESS MAPPING IN
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
e companies in this book have taken a wide variety of approaches
to process mapping in product development. Some groups have used
value stream mapping or some other process mapping methodology
extensively. Some have used it, but abandoned it because it did not
address their core problems. Others have deliberately le it alone.
Here are some questions to ask to decide whether or not process
mapping will help your company:
• How formal and complicated is the current state of our product
development process? Would a mapping session help us under-
sta ...