Why Value Stream Mapping is Essential to Product and Process Development

In product development and innovation, a lot of people work on the same data at the same time. And there are a lot of trade-offs in interfaces in the design work. When we don't have those things synchronized, a lot of times we are working with unstable data. We start doing work and then we have to rework it as we're going through. And that causes more time on the project. But frankly, it also causes more frustration on the team members. No one likes to do work and have to rework it again.

So product development value stream mapping has been a useful technique to help teams really see how they do their work and how their work fits together. And as they see how their work fits together, they also see opportunities to how they can improve their work as well.

John Drogosz, senior coach for Lean Product and Process Development at the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, explains product development value stream mapping, a proven way to help cross-functional teams clearly “see” their work and achieve their full potential.

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