Design of a lean development framework

In today´s business environment many enterprises react to changing conditions by implementing lean development (LD). LD offers an approach to eliminate waste, achieve high quality, and reduce the time-to-market. Enterprises that want to implement LD are faced with many different concepts. The paper presents the major LD-concepts published during the last 10 years and summarizes the contents in a framework, which contains seven principles. The framework can be used as basis to develop enterprise-specific LD-concept with the consideration of all important aspects of LD. The developed framework was validated in the automotive industry and further research needs are mentioned.