This book addresses the application of lean concepts from a new perspective. The main concern of the book is to further discover the Japanese lean concept and the possible benefits from adopting them in other areas like product development....

This is the first book on embedded systems to offer a unified approach to hardware and software specification and design issues ? and the first to outline a new specify-explore-refine paradigm that is presently being used in industry in an ad-hoc manner, but until now has not been formally described....