The Micro-V Cycle : Jan Nilsson & Tianbao Zhang (in English)

As the “manufacturing” industries (in contrast to the “digital” industries) nowadays are facing a more dynamic market regarding the rapidly changing demands, supply chain uncertainties, fast technology evolutions, etc., there’s a great demand to adapt the research and development (R&D) process. The success of agile way of working (Agile WoW) has been widely recognized in the digital industry for years since when the agile manifesto was first published in 2001. Therefore, the manufacturing industries are seeking a transition to utilize Agile WoW, hoping to replicate the success. However, there are some fundamental differences between the digital industries and the manufacturing industries, which made a direct copy-and-paste of Agile WoW from the former one to the later one fail. This led to a belief that Agile Way of Working is not applicable for the manufacturing industry. Using the Micro-V-cycle, we, Jan Nilsson and Tianbao Zhang, want to show that this is not correct.