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The Path of Mastery: How to Begin
with Lean Product Development
I hope the stories in this book have inspired you to try out some Lean ideas
in your product development teams. In this chapter, I will give you a road
map to a Lean Product Development transformation. In my research, I
learned that there are ve stages to a Lean transformation (Figure16.1).
Not every company goes through all ve stages, although all of them go
through the stages in the same order. Some small companies can move
almost immediately into system-wide Lean simply because the system is
so small. Some large companies may need to do focused projects to solve
system- ...