Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. In all things worth pursuing, there exists the ever-present ...

A product development strategy provides a framework for creating new products or improving the performance, cost or quality of existing products. The strategy helps a company achieve business goals, ...

Product development may be understood generically as all the things that happen from the initial conception or invention of a product to the point when a product is launched into the market. It can ...

The six-week sprint is a new product development strategy chosen by startups to replace unrealistic product development cycles and avoid time-consuming and wasteful traditional methodologies. The ...

Purpose-driven product decisions might not always lead to flashy headlines, but they do lead to consistently better customer ...

Product development (“PD”) is a core competency for any product-oriented company, whether a Fortune 100 firm, a small engineering business, or a technology-based startup. Commercializing innovative ...

Back in 2022, I wrote about the triple threat of additive, agility and automation—three forces that were already reshaping manufacturing and product development. Fast forward to 2025, and these trends ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. When people think of virtual reality, many visualize the ...