Scrum’s Impact on Product Design Education

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Design & Manufacturing Seminar Series 2020 


 SPEAKER:  Prof. David Ullman Oregon State University 

ABSTRACT: In this presentation, after a brief background and history, I will explain why Scrum is so important to engineering product design.  SCRUM design process has found extensive success in software development. Rather than the top-down waterfall or stage-gate processes, Scrum embraces that design is about removing uncertainty and making robust decisions as a product evolves.  In this talk I will introduce the Scrum process and discuss challenges in its use for hardware and systems design.  These challenges are being successfully overcome in a wide range of industries and resulting in quicker time to market, improved product quality, and more motivated engineers. In the future Scrum will become part of what is taught at universities and will be how capstone projects are managed.

BIO:  David G. Ullman is an internationally recognized expert on product design and decision making best practices. He earned his BS and MS from U. of Cincinnati and PhD from Ohio State. His industry experience includes Air Force Flight Dynamics Lab (1970–72), Battelle Memorial Institute (1972–74) and Oxygen Enrichment Co., (1982–84). He was on the faculty of Oregon State from 1984-2002 and currently Emeritus Professor. In 2002 he founded Robust Decisions Inc.  Ullman first became interested in the “process” of design while a student at Ohio State, inspired by the late Professor Walter Starkey. He spent his career teaching others how to design products. He is the founder of the ASME Design Theory and Methodology Committee. He is the author of “The Mechanical Design Process”, a text used at many Universities to teach design. In 2018 he began to weave the Scrum process into his consulting and teaching materials. 

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