Kanban: Realising Benefits, A Week In
Over the last couple of years, Kanban has become an increasingly popular method for managing ongoing software development, particularly for small enhancements and fixes. It’s been particularly popular...
View ArticleFor Lean Thinking, Employ a Direct Marketer
Direct Marketing and Lean share an experimental method to drive improvement: iteratively testing proposals against Current Best Way Many years ago — long before I came near Software Development — I had...
View ArticleContinuous Improvement: A Bigger Advantage than Disruptive Innovation?
One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons have been offered. Britain had plentiful supplies of coal, for instance. It...
View ArticleError Proof My Lasagne
One of the joys about being on the Lean Journey is that you see Waste absolutely everywhere, you develop an almost physical intolerance of what can be improved, and feel almost compelled to intervene....
View ArticleA Hierarchy of Management Engagement
To be capable of effectively directing work and leading improvement, management need to have a reality based deep understanding of how value is created and what impediments exist. Often, management...
View ArticleJob = Work + Improvement
Exploit variation in demand to create capacity for improvement. One of the problems that many knowledgework processes face is that workload is highly variable. It comes in significant bursts, sometimes...
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