Elements of Toyota's Lean Product Development

This is from Lean Product and Process Development by Allen C. Ward.

• All Toyota developers spend about half of their first year assembling and selling cars. The final customers & the customers for the product development process.


• Identifies the critical skills associated with each job.
  
  1. Understands the basic engineering principles
  2. Works fast enough to keep up with the team
  3. Takes responsibility for the work
  4. Can teach the skills


• Keeping people in position long enough to become expert and to get good feedback on their decisions.


• Require engineers to "get their hands dirty".


• Developers must be evaluated on their contributions to project success.