Donald G. Reinertsen Quotes

#1. In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization.

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#2. In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#3. We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#4. If you are going to worry about it, I won't.

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#5. Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact.

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#6. The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became

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#7. If we have drifted 10 heads above the zero line in our coin flip experiment, what is the probability of getting 10 tails in a row to return us to zero? About 1 in 1,000.

Donald G. Reinertsen