{"id":5090,"date":"2018-05-08T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2018-05-10T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T04:05:42","slug":"design-in-process-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/design-in-process-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Design In Process | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design-in-Process (DIP) is partially finished work. DIP is discussed here as analogous to WIP (Work-in-progress of manufacturing). Partially finished work, incomplete work, inventory are considered as waste in IT industry which is not visible as in the manufacturing industry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Software development DIP is inventory, which is a risk. As Donald (Don) Reinertsen mentions in his book, queues cause development process to have too much design-in-process inventory. Developers, managers unaware of DIP do not measure it, do not manage it. They even do not realize that DIP is a problem. When DIP is high, cycle times are long. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don, gives two important reasons why product developer are blind to DIP<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inventory is financially invisible, partially completed designs are not considered as assets in balance sheet and R&amp;D costs are expensed as they are incurred.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inventory is usually physically invisible in product development so developers are blind towards it. DIP is an information, not physical object. We don\u2019t see piles of DIP if we walk through engineering department, DIP inventory is bits on disk drive, and we have very big disk drive in product development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blind to DIP, increases variability, risk and cycle time which in turn decrease efficiency, quality and motivation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reference: \u201cThe Principles of Product Development FLOW Second Generation Lean Product Development\u201d by Donald Reinertsen (page 5 &amp; 6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design-in-Process (DIP) is partially finished work. DIP is discussed here as analogous to WIP (Work-in-progress of manufacturing). Partially finished work, incomplete work, inventory are considered as waste in IT industry which is not visible as in the manufacturing industry. In Software development DIP is inventory, which is a risk. 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