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title: 7 Tips for Improving Your Hardware Development Process
description: Refining your hardware development process? Here 7 principles that will cause you to rethink your approach.  1. Pull  tasks,  2. Do the right work at the right time, across the company 3. Schedule work up to no more than 70% utilization 4. Limit your queue size, 5. Break down the work to get feedback
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Looking to refine your hardware development process? Here are 7 Lean and Agile principles to refine your process and deliver projects faster...

## 7 Lean and Agile Tips for improving your hardware development process

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[Lean project management and decentralized planning](https://playbookteam.com/blog/decentralized-project-planning)  
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 Elyssa Pallai 

 Sep 22, 2016 12:00:00 AM

### [7 Principles of Lean Product Development](https://playbookteam.com/resources/blog/seven-principles-of-lean-product-development)

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 Sep 22, 2016 12:00:00 AM

### [7 Proven Ways To Manage Tasks and Prioritize Work](https://playbookteam.com/resources/blog/7-ways-to-manage-tasks)

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 Paul DeLong 

 Sep 22, 2016 12:00:00 AM

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