ABSTRACT

How do you organize, plan, and evaluate development projects? How do you define project deliverables, specifications, quality levels, and cost targets?

Thomas Edison is not appreciated as a production process innovator. In fact, the novelty of his inventions required him to develop new materials that optimized device performance. He was not the first to demonstrate an incandescent light bulb. The earlier models used inappropriate filament materials and only operated for minutes before burning out.