Don Reinertsen, Consultant and Author

Don is the President of Reinertsen & Associates, a consulting firm specialized in the management of product development. He has worked with leading product development organizations for over 3o years, and taught executive courses at Caltech for 14 years. He is the author/co-author of three best-selling books on product development. His first two books, Developing Products in Half the Time, and Managing the Design Factory, are product development classics. His latest book, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, has won several awards and has been called, “quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy.” He is considered one of the leading thinkers in the emerging field of lean product development.