Product development projects adapted according to the lean philosophy and right hand drive vehicle project

Nowadays, project management is an effective management way, many businesses use, whatever their scales are. Plurality of usage area diversities does not cause any changements in the main management principles. Besides this, proficiencies that increase in direct proportion to experiences are useful in promptness of project, quality improvement and reducing the project costs.Project management is used in automotive, defense, space, informatics, building sectors and project management can be with respect to product development, research-development, enterprise resource planning, software development, sales strategy development. Implementation and phases? contents of product development projects that frequently used in automotive sector, provide appropriateness to these days? competition conditions, fastness, accessing clear information by systems, determinability and traceability.One of the most important reasons to choose "Right Hand Drive Vehicle" as sample product development project, is the big technical differences between basic vehicle model and the right hand drive vehicle that was planned to produced. This will cause that contents? scope of r&d, test, documentation, purchasing, quality, logistic, production, last control studies happened larger, being able to examined project more detailed, providing to being more useful for investigators. Despite has been configured according to the lean philosophy, efforts is being continued in product development phases for fixing this lean philosophy to this automotive business.This study reveals that, with achieving all requirements for establishing lean philosophy in product development phases, they can be a weapon that is going to bring competition strength and opportunities to the business by this improvement. Concurrently subparts of one sales group that content of sample project, one option of vehicle that was chosen as a product tree by customer was shown up and thus, this study indicates which work packs will be planned in new vehicle project. In the conclusion section, execution of product development phases and determined phases of sample automotive business? product development will be inspected by maturity/opportunity analysis and functional evaluating.Keywords: Product, Product Development, Product Tree, Project Management, Product Development Project, Automotive, Automotive Sector, Lean Production, Lean Philosophy in Product Development Phases