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Bringing agile project management into lead user projects

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  • Jens Lehnen
  • Tobias Sebastian Schmidt
  • Cornelius Herstatt

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The lead user method symbolises a technique of integrating advanced users into the New Product Development (NPD) to cope with firm's increasing necessity of successfully innovating. Implementing this method, companies often face challenges typically linked to barriers in project management. We analyse these drawbacks conducting an exploratory study among 249 companies in the German-speaking countries. To strengthen our results, we conduct six in-depth interviews to collect best practices in project management-related aspects. The outcome is a model based on agile project management and the stage-gate process that compensates identified weaknesses and provides an efficient, flexible implementation of lead users into practice.

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  • Jens Lehnen & Tobias Sebastian Schmidt & Cornelius Herstatt, 2016. "Bringing agile project management into lead user projects," International Journal of Product Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 21(2/3), pages 212-232.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:21:y:2016:i:2/3:p:212-232
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    1. Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Pia & Nätti, Satu & Pikkarainen, Minna, 2021. "Orchestrating for lead user involvement in innovation networks," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    2. Carmen Novac & Raluca Ciochina, 2018. "Challenges of Applying Agile Principles and Values to IT Project Management," Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, Fundacja Upowszechniająca Wiedzę i Naukę "Cognitione", vol. 4(4), pages 43-62.
    3. Goeldner, Moritz & Kruse, Daniel J. & Herstatt, Cornelius, 2017. "Lead user method vs. innovation contest: An empirical comparison of two open innovation methodologies for identifying social innovation for flood Resilience in Indonesia," Working Papers 101, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Institute for Technology and Innovation Management.

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