A lightweight team is a new product team charged with successfully developing a product concept and delivering to the marketplace. Resources are, for the most part, not dedicated and the team depends on the technical functions for resources necessary to get the work accomplished. A lightweight team is sometimes called a lean team.
To learn more about new product development teams, please reference NPD Teams: The Basics,NPD Team Integration, and Four Tips for Virtual NPD Teams.
Additional terms and definitions for new product development and project management can be found in the NPD Glossary.
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