From the course: Agile New Product Development for Manufacturers

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- [Mark] At the beginning of this course, we discussed the principles of agile project management that can be carried over from the information technology world to the manufacturing world. These principles offer a lasting guide for what's involved in an organization adopting agile project management for new product development. Let's take a look at some of the key concepts that we learned in this course. First, agile new product development, like an agile project management project, involves small teams working in short cycles. Now, there may be multiple small teams working together, but the key is that it's a small team of self-directed individuals working on the project and project activities in short cycles or sprints or iterations. Another key aspect of the agile project management methodology is to focus on deliverables. Now, in the software world where agile first became prevalent, this was very easy because the deliverable could be the working software. In the new product…

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