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Standalone modules on Lean Product & Process Development. Each one covers a concept, applies it to your work, and tests your understanding. Chapter intro videos are free — module content requires a subscription.

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Planet-Based Set-Based Design

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5 sections · 40–50 min · No sign-in required

Planet-Based Set-Based Design: Make Learning Visible Before You Narrow

Why point-based sustainable design keeps failing, what design waste means, how to keep all five sustainability domains open simultaneously, and how to narrow responsibly — with the Planet-Based A3 learning system (Stages A–E) and a material candidate rubric.

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Chapter 1

Introduction to LPPD

Chapter intro

Introduction to Lean Product & Process Development

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Chapter 2

Foundations of LPPD

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Chapter intro

Why LPPD changes how you think about product development

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Module 1

Foundations of Lean Product and Process Development

Six guiding principles, six core mental models, and why LPPD differs from phase-gate and lean production. 35–40 min.

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Module 2

What Is Lean Product and Process Development?

Define LPPD precisely, contrast it with lean production, and understand the five core characteristics that make it a knowledge-creation system. 30–35 min.

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Module 3

Guiding Principles – The Six Pillars of LPPD

What each principle means, what it looks like in daily work, and how to use all six as a diagnostic lens and design compass. 35–40 min.

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Module 4

Core Mental Models for LPPD

PMF Pyramid, SBCE, A3 Thinking, Obeya, Development Value Stream, and Bottom-up Planning — the thinking tools that make the principles operational. 35–40 min.

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Chapter 3

Strategy and Value Creation

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Chapter intro

How LPPD connects strategy to what teams actually work on

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Module 1

From True North to Value Streams

How True North, development value streams, and target conditions work together to turn strategy into observable progress. 35–40 min.

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Module 2

Choosing and Framing Portfolio Bets

Turn your portfolio from a project list into a set of funded hypotheses — pretotype brochures, leading signals, and a decision cadence that keeps the system learning. 35–40 min.

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Module 3

Strategy Gemba and Customer Insight

Go to the real place where customers and products meet. Plan and run a strategy gemba sprint — and turn observations into strategic hypotheses. 35–40 min.

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Module 4

Strategy Deployment and Measuring Value

Connect strategy to daily work through target conditions, catchball, and a small set of signals across three layers — outcomes, system performance, and team learning. 35–40 min.

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Chapter 4

Customer & Problem Understanding

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Chapter intro

Why outside-in thinking is the hardest and most important shift in LPPD

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Module 1

Customer & Problem Understanding

Inside-out vs. outside-in thinking, Jobs to Be Done, customer journeys, context and constraints, and a lightweight discovery practice. 35–40 min.

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Module 2

System & Context

Map the wider system your product lives in — operational realities, regulatory constraints, IT platforms, cultural patterns — and turn context into design inputs. 35–40 min.

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Module 3

Gemba Practices for Discovery

Go to the actual place — plan and run discovery gemba using Purpose–Process–People, ask open questions, debrief fast, and connect insights to bets and experiments. 35–40 min.

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Module 4

Pretotype Sales Brochures & Early Signals

Test whether customers care before you build — draft a six-element pretotype brochure, define a behavioural signal and threshold, and use continue / pivot / stop to act on the results. 35–40 min.

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Module 5

Capturing and Reusing Discovery Knowledge

Turn discovery insights into reusable artefacts — insight cards, experiment sheets, and design rules — and design the reuse moments that make every new bet start smarter than the last. 35–40 min.

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Chapter 5

From Insight to Design & Flow

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Chapter intro

How LPPD turns discovery knowledge into confident design decisions

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Module 1

Set-Based Design in Practice

Keep design options open, run learning in parallel, and commit when the evidence is strong — not when the schedule says so. Concept sets, parameter sets, feasible regions, and the three commitment conditions. 40–45 min.

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Module 2

Architectures, Interfaces, and Modularity

Use module sets and interface sets to hold multiple architecture options in parallel, evaluate them across five structured drivers, and capture decisions as design rules that persist beyond the project. 40–45 min.

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Module 3

Designing the Development Value Stream

Design the flow from insight to launch — define stages, set WIP limits, apply entry and exit criteria, establish a cadence of integration events, and build a visual board that makes the stream visible. 40–45 min.

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Module 4

Visual Management & Obeya for Design & Flow

Make strategy, design options, and development flow visible in one shared space. Design a living obeya with four zones, lightweight visuals, and a rhythm of stand-ups and integration event reviews that turn information into decisions. 35–40 min.

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Module 5

Integrating Manufacturing / Operations Early (Design for Flow)

Co-design product and production together — from the first architecture decision through joint ramp-up. Build shared design rules using the if-then-because format and move toward a permanent manufacturing partner relationship. 40–45 min.

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Chapter 6

Experimentation & Learning

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Chapter intro

Why structured experimentation is the fastest way to learn

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Module 1

Experiment A3 — How to use the canvas and tool

A guided walkthrough of every section of the Experiment A3 canvas, and how Toolman Tim coaches you through it.

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Module 2

From Questions to Experiments

How to identify the right questions, cluster uncertainty, and design the smallest credible test. Includes diagrams and a quiz.

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Module 3

Prototyping Ladder

How to choose the right prototype for the right stage — from paper sketches to functional pilots.

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Module 4

Knowledge-Based Milestones

How to define milestones around what you know — not the schedule — and make confident go/no-go decisions at every phase.

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Module 5

Three Lenses of Validation

How to validate that product, production process, and business model are all ready — together, not in sequence.

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Module 6

Learning After Launch

How to capture and share what you learned — so the next team starts smarter than you did.

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Chapter 7

Validation, Learning, and Decisions

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Chapter intro

How experiments, decisions, and learning connect across the whole product system

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Module 1

From Output Reviews to Knowledge Reviews

Redesign how your team reviews progress — from status theatre to structured learning conversations. Learn the four-block agenda, how teams, leaders, and experts play different roles, and how a simple decision record builds organisational knowledge. 30–35 min.

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Module 2

Experiments at Portfolio & Review Level

Move from designing good experiments to using them to steer bets, milestones, and reviews — across the whole portfolio. Build experiment trees, place tests on the development stream, and run decision-focused reviews. 35–40 min.

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Module 3

Learning & Decisions as a System

Design the rhythms, roles, and places that make learning reliable rather than lucky. Frame knowledge-based decisions using three criteria, apply knowledge gates and four decision patterns to your own work, and close the loop from decision to reusable design rule. 35–40 min.

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Module 4

Visuals, Behaviours, and Culture for Learning

Design the boards, behaviours, and habits that make learning the normal way of working. Build a learning-focused obeya, use visual cues that pull for experiments and decisions, develop leader behaviours that enable learning, and foster psychological safety as a foundation for problem-solving. 35–40 min.

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Module 5 — Short Capstone

Practical Start: Upgrade Your Next Review

Take one real upcoming review and redesign it as a knowledge review. Learn the Decision & Learning Review Pattern (before / during / close), complete a preparation canvas that doubles as real prep, and plan a short debrief to improve the format each time. 20–25 min.

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Chapter 8

Scaling, Launch, and Lifecycle

Module 1

From Prototype to Ramp-Up

Design ramp-up as a learning and stabilisation phase. Set goals for stability, quality, and flow; define stages with learning objectives and exit gates; instrument key processes for daily learning; and build the cross-functional routines that swarm problems at the source. 35–40 min.

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Module 2

Synchronizing Product, Process, and Supply Chain

Align product, process, and supply chain for launch. Build a shared plan with milestones, ramp profile, and freeze points; map capacity constraints; and design the daily huddle and tiered boards that resolve deviations at the source. 35–40 min.

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Module 3

Designing Launch as a Learning Event

Enter launch with explicit hypotheses, a focused cockpit, and a triage process. Design the weekly launch review and change windows that let the market teach you fast without destabilising your value stream. 35–40 min.

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Module 4

Managing Variants and Complexity

Offer meaningful variety without drowning in complexity. Use a value-vs-complexity lens to decide when a variant is justified, build a platform and module strategy, and apply variant slots, reviews, and portfolio clean-ups to keep complexity manageable over time. 35–40 min.

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Module 5

Lifecycle Thinking and Roadmaps

See each product family as a story over years. Create a lifecycle map, design for upgrades and retrofits with forward-compatible modules, plan end-of-life transitions deliberately, and use lifecycle thinking to make better decisions about variants, investment, and complexity across generations. 35–40 min.

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Module 6 — Capstone

Learning from Scale and Lifecycle into Next Bets

Close the loop from ramp-up to next generation. Harvest the three categories of launch learning, design the feedback mechanisms that make operational knowledge flow back into your LPPD system, and build a launch plan that feeds what you learn into your next bet. 30–35 min.

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Chapter 9

Culture, Leadership, and Coaching

Module 1 — Capstone · 20–25 min

What Culture Do We Need for LPPD?

The three pillars every LPPD system depends on — respect for people, problems as gold, and radical transparency — and how to assess and strengthen the culture in your own context.

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Module 2 — Capstone · 25–30 min

Lean Leadership and Coaching in Product Development

Four lean leadership behaviours that make LPPD real — go and see, ask for learning, protect experiments, show respect — and coaching as the engine that makes culture change stick. Includes a leadership experiment canvas.

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Module 3 — Capstone · 25–30 min

Developing Leaders and Building a Coaching Culture

How to grow lean leadership at every level, move from hero coaches to a coaching system embedded in daily rhythms, and align people systems with coaching culture. Closes Chapter 9 with a personal leadership upgrade experiment.

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Chapter 10

Implementation: Start From One Value Stream

Module 1 — Capstone · 20–25 min

Start From One Value Stream

The implementation pattern that creates real change. Choose a pilot value stream, frame a learning challenge, select 2–3 plays, and design your first 6–12 month LPPD experiment with clear signals and review points.

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Chapter 11

Why Lean 3P Industrialization

Module 1 — Capstone

Launch Problems You Can’t Fix on the Line

Distinguish problems you can kaizen away from problems that were designed in. Learn to sort launch issues by root cause, trace them back to the decisions that locked them in, and see why a structured industrialization approach is the only reliable fix. 20–25 min.

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Module 2 — Capstone

What Lean 3P Does Differently

Understand what 3P actually is and how it differs from traditional industrialisation and kaizen. Learn the four patterns inside a 3P effort: cross-functional teams, multiple concepts, try-storming with mock-ups, and simple scoring before investment is committed. 20–25 min.

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Module 3 — Capstone

When to Use 3P and What Results to Expect

Know when a full 3P effort is justified and when kaizen or lighter design work is enough. Understand the six result areas 3P improves, how to screen upcoming initiatives, and how to frame a realistic case with sponsors and colleagues. 20–25 min.

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Chapter 12

3P Foundations: How Lean 3P Thinks

Module 1 — Capstone

Set-Based Design for Product + Process in 3P

Apply set-based thinking at three levels — product concepts, station designs, and layout options. Generate multiple concepts, build rough mock-ups, score them against shared criteria, and commit with confidence. 20–25 min.

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Module 2 — Capstone

Concurrent Product and Process Development in 3P

Why “design then industrialise” fails — and how 3P organises product, process, and production teams to develop concurrently. Map your current vs desired concurrency pattern. 20–25 min.

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Module 3 — Capstone

Delay Decisions, Not Learning

Front-load experiments and mock-ups; back-load hard-to-reverse commitments. Distinguish learning from deciding, name the early-decision traps, and sketch a learning-first 3P plan with explicit decision points. 20–25 min.

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Module 4 — Capstone

Operator-as-Surgeon Mindset

Treat operators as precision professionals whose time and attention are precious. Design stations from the operator’s body outward, assign support roles to remove non-value tasks, and use operator trial feedback as hard design criteria. Closes Chapter 12. 20–25 min.

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Chapter 13

The 3P Flow

Module 1 — 5 sections · 30–35 min

The 4-Phase 3P Industrialization Flow

How a Lean 3P effort is structured from the first design question to a stable, optimised operation. Covers Information, Innovation, Process Design, and Optimization — what each phase must accomplish, why capital belongs at the end of Phase 3, and how the sequence builds the knowledge needed for vertical start-up.

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Module 2 — 4 sections · 25–30 min

The Three Core 3P Events

Concept 3P, Process 3P, and Optimization 3P — what each event is for, who is involved, and what good looks like. Understand the inputs, activities, and outputs of each event type, and know how to choose the right one for your situation. 25–30 min.

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Capstone — Chapters 11–13 · 25–30 min

Putting Lean 3P to Work: Choose and Shape Your First 3P Program

Recap the Lean 3P essentials, select a real candidate from your own context, and sketch the four phases of a first 3P program. Closes the Lean 3P track with a canvas you can take to your team. 25–30 min.

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Chapter 14

Design 3P: Make the Product Buildable Early

Module 1 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

CTQ/CTC Thinking for Buildability

How to identify Critical-to-Quality and Critical-to-Construction requirements early in Design 3P — and use them to focus your effort on the zones where build risk is highest. Includes a 12-field mapping canvas you can apply to any product or module.

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Module 2 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

APN Scoring for Design & 3P Focus

A simple Severity × Occurrence scoring scheme to rank CTQ/CTC items and direct Design 3P effort to the zones where build risk is highest. Includes an APN scoring canvas and a guide to translating top-APN items into design actions and 3P priorities.

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Module 3 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

Quick-Look Value Engineering for Manufacturability

A short, facilitated review that surfaces complexity and buildability problems while the design is still flexible — using CTQ/CTC density and five targeted questions to identify hotspots and feed Design 3P.

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Module 4 — Capstone · 3 sections · 25–30 min

Build a Design 3P Plan

Turn CTQ/CTC, APN, and Quick-Look VE results into a structured Design 3P plan — with focus areas, learning objectives, a tool sequence, and clear handoffs into the 4-phase 3P industrialisation flow.

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Chapter 15

Process 3P: Make the Process Buildable Early

Module 1 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

Map the Operational Value Stream for 3P

See the full flow from customer demand to delivery — and identify where Process 3P design will have the most leverage.

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Module 2 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

Find High-Impact Steps and Run 7 Alternatives

Pick the steps that matter most in your operational value stream — then generate multiple process concepts before choosing one.

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Module 3 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

Build the Future-State Production Plan

Integrate your selected process alternatives into a coherent future-state design — with capacity, buffers, and support system assumptions.

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Module 4 — Capstone · 25–30 min

Process 3P Case & Planning Exercise

See the full Process 3P pattern applied to a real case — then build your own program plan for a value stream you can influence.

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Chapter 16

Production 3P: Layout, Flow, and Vertical Start-Up

Module 1 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

From Future-State Plan to Layout & Flow

Turn your future-state production plan into physical layout and flow concepts — sketch, compare, and select the most promising options for the building.

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Module 2 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

PFEP, Material Flow, and Water Spider Routes

Design the Plan for Every Part and the water spider routes that make your layout work in practice — and prepare those inputs for your 3P event.

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Module 3 — 3 sections · 25–30 min

Standard Work, Poka-Yoke, and Vertical Start-Up

Design standard work alongside your layout, apply poka-yoke at the highest-risk operations, and build a phased vertical start-up plan that lets you learn fast before full rate.

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Module 4 — Capstone · 25–30 min

The 3P Launch System: From Product Concept to Vertical Start-Up

See Design 3P, Process 3P, and Production 3P as one integrated launch system — then assess your current process and sketch a 3P launch plan for your next major initiative.

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Chapter 17

Lean Learning Cycles: The Engine of Early Hardware Development

Module 1 — 3 sections · 20–25 min

Why Lean Learning Cycles?

The cost of late learning in hardware, the knowledge-creation mindset, and a high-level map of the lean learning cycles framework — including test-to-design thinking and the preparation + execution structure covered in later modules.

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Module 2 — 3 sections · 25–30 min

The Lean Learning Cycles Framework & Front-Loading

Build the preparation foundation for a learning programme: core hypothesis, pretotype, product attributes and PBS, priority matrix, key decisions and knowledge gaps, and a first 8–12 week increment plan.

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Module 3 — 3 sections · 30–35 min

Planning and Running Learning Cycles

The execution engine: 2-week cycle planning with iteration plans and hypothesis writing, daily stand-ups and WIP limits on the learning board, integration events with commit/defer/pivot decisions, Knowledge Briefs, limit curves, and how cycles feed the increment plan.

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