DIGITALIZATION CHALLENGES FOR LEAN VISUAL PLANNING IN DISTRIBUTED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
DS 84: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference
Year: 2016
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko
Author: Stenholm, D.; Bergsjö, D.; Catic, A.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
Page(s): 1595-1604
Abstract
Visual Planning has shown strong benefits for its easy-to-use layout and ability to plan projects with little effort and a low threshold to the method. However, limitations of the physical solution becomes apparent as more development are conducted in distributed teams where information becomes difficult to share and interact with. This paper presents challenges extracted from a literature review, combined with interviews and observations in nine case companies and concludes that there is a great importance, that despite digitalization, maintain a strong emphasis on preserving the meeting.
Keywords: visual planning, visual management, lean product development, distributed teams, digital visual planning