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.