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It is needless to say that the competitive edge is given to a firm with the better knowledge on how to estimate the product development (PD) process because reducing the product development time is a critical issue for manufacturing firms. However, it is difficult to estimate the performance of the PD process because of its complexity. So far, in spite of its strategic importance, only a few studies have been done. To overcome this limitation, in this study, the authors provide a heuristic algorithm that can estimate the lead time of a complex PD process by series\u2013parallel network transformation and network reduction methods with estimates of the makespans of branch\u2013merge types. 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