TEI 132: Integrating Lean Startup and Stage-Gate

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next
episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister,
PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation
and managing products become more successful, grow their careers,
and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Lean Startup or
Stage-Gate? More often organizations are not choosing one or the
other but taking the “and” option and integrating both into their
product processes.  The challenge is how to get them to play
nice with each other and gain the benefits of each without losing
something in the process. To discuss this topic I turned to a
well-experienced product manager and innovator who mentors young
entrepreneurs as well as large companies, showing them how to put
Lean into practice and align it with other methodologies, including
Stage-Gate. My guest is Mark Adkins, president of Smart Hammer
Innovation, a management consulting business that helps companies
apply best practices to Innovation Management. He is also a
part-time professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for
Medical Innovation. Mark shares how Lean Startup works best in the
front end of Stage-Gate, enhancing an organization’s product
process.