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every five years . That is a big challenge and I think a lot of corporates are struggling with it . At MANN + HUMMEL we have the luxury of a leadership and shareholders that are fully backing us to experiment with new things . They understand that speed is of the essence and time is now !”
So how exactly does IoT speed up product development ? It ’ s a matter of escaping from standard manufacturing development processes that are very successive in style and adopting an agile way of working . “ I know a lot of people are using the word agile as a tagline , but what I am talking about is sprint methodology ,” Vaillant says . “ When we develop IoT products we launch new features in a two-week sprint , check and validate over another two weeks , then start again – so every four weeks we are able to bring new features into our products .” It ’ s a departure from traditional German product development principles . Minimum viable product ( MVP ) rather than perfection is the principle . From the start of the Senzit project to commercialization took just 12
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