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Andrea McDermott Engineering Project Manager| Legrand Dayton, Oh, United States

Where can I find good resources whether those are books, blogs, webinars, or other training that can help me translate the traditional software agile methodology to mechanical engineering?
Toyota successfully does it and I know other organizations do too.

Posted: Mar 1, 2017 4:13 PM

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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina

I was the opportunity to work with Agile from the very begining participating where it was ·formally" born (USA DoD NSF/Agility Forum in 1990) and perticipating as one of the authors of the DSDM agile software development method. I worked in Toyota and what Toyota did was years after named as Lean by the MIT, but is not the same than Agile. I am leding my seventh initiative to implement Agile. So my recomendation is first of all to understand what Agile really is taking into account is not a method, is not a process, is not softwre related. I have the oporotunity to write a short article for PM Network ("Perfectly Positioned", http://www.pmnetwork-digital.com/pmnetwork...16?pg=73#pg73), Mrs, Heidi Araya publish the best article I read about the Agile history (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-agile-...-title-publish) and between others you can find an interesting article about how Agile could be used inside a hericarchical organization: https://steveblank.com/2016/11/10/how-the-...vation-culture/

Posted: Mar 1, 2017 6:18 PM

Aaron Porter

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IT Director| Blade HQ Payson, UT, United States

Sergio makes a good point. Agile is an idea, or an ideal, that expresses values and principles. There are many flavors of agile project management and development. Some are lightweight frameworks, some could be called methodologies. I review several of them in my blog, here on projectmanagement.com (if you have plenty of time to kill).

Toyota successfully uses TPS, but not everyone that has tried has been successful. My opinion is that is due, in part, to trying to make a team fit a process (square peg, round hole...). Before adopting an agile approach, you should understand at least a few approaches, as well as how your company functions. Some flavors of agile may be easier to implement than others.

Here are some links to blogs Agile and Mechanical Engineering:
http://glewengineering.com/lean-and-agile-...neering-part-1/

http://www.lifecycleinsights.com/engineeri...ct-development/

Posted: Mar 1, 2017 6:32 PM

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