One of the more effective and innovative tools introduced into its lean product development process by Boston Scientific Corporation is the daily "stand-up" meeting of product development teams. The idea generated much interest among participants at Management Roundtable's Lean Product Development Implementation Summit held June 13-14, 2006 in Chicago. Presented by Philip Ebeling, director, program management, LEAN Product Development at Boston Scientific,stand-up meetings are no longer than ten minutes every day (literally no chairs or sitting allowed). Co-located cross-functional product development teams each hold a stand-up meeting in their own bullpen area to review and discuss the status of their projects. “While stand-up meetings may be more common to operations, in our case it is a very new concept for product development,” says Ebeling.

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