Project Management in Product Development

George Ellis has worked in product development for 35 years. He first experienced the concept of continuous improvement two decades ago through the Danaher Corporation, one of the world’s foremost lean thinking companies. Danaher transformed itself in the 1980s, modeling its Danaher Business System (DBS) on the Toyota Production System. Ellis has had numerous leadership roles at Danaher, including Vice President of Global Engineering for X-Rite from 2015 to 2018. In 2019, Ellis joined Envista Holdings Corporation, a new spin-off from Danaher for the dental industry, as Vice President of Innovation. There he spends every day immersed in lean knowledge work, deploying, improving, and sustaining new product development workflows in EBS, Envista’s brand of lean knowledge. He also wrote Project Management for Product Development, Control System Design Guide (4th edition), and Observers in Control Systems, all from Elsevier.

1.An Introduction to Project Management and Product Development2.Planning a Project3.Executing a Project4.Total Leadership for Project Managers5.Stage-Gate Project Management6.Critical Chain Project Management7.Lean Product Development8.Agile Project Management: Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Scrumban9.Risks and Issues: Preparing for and Responding to the Unexpected10.Patents for Project Managers11.ReportingAppendices