
198 • Lean Product Development: Make it Work!
HOW TO LAUNCH AND SUPPORT A PILOT PROJECT
HOW TO KICK OFF A PILOT PROJECT
A pilot team benets more than most from a kicko meeting to get
everyone in the same room to hash out the program details:
• All project teams need a clear target and objectives. is is even
more critical for a pilot team because it has two sets of objec-
tives. A pilot team’s kicko needs to make both of these objec-
tive sets explicit, with mechanisms for negotiating changes if
needed.
• e team needs to know what success looks like and how the
countermeasure will be assessed during and aer the project.
• e team needs to ...