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Management Webcast: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog —
Authority: 414
Webcast introduction to lean manufacturing by Ron Pereira. This is a great 9 minute introduction to the topic, for those not familiar with lean thinking . It sets the context for lean thinking and provides some history on how lean manufacturing has developed. Get videos on learning about lean from the Gemba ...2 days ago -
Management Improvement Carnival #80
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog —
Authority: 414
Jamie Flinchbaugh is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #80 on his new blog, highlights include: A New Strategy for the Kaizen Blitz from Lean Homebuilding – on PDCA, kaizen, with lots of good comments To Err is Human…To Error Proof is Divine from Ankit Patel – fundamentals of error proofing from ...1 week ago -
Is Scrum Lean?
Scaling Software Agility —
Authority: 403
In my last post , I described some work I’ve been doing with lean thinking in some larger software enterprises – not so much for teams themselves, who generally find Scrum and/with/or XP to be adequate for their needs – but to other levels in the organization – project office, sales, marketing and ...3 weeks ago -
Do You Really Have to Write Procedures?
Policies, Procedures and Processes —
Authority: 103
Not all processes require procedure writing . There’s a lot of overhead associated with every business procedure you write. Therefore, the more business procedures you write, the more procedures you have to edit, implement, train, audit, and review. Only company policies and procedures required by ...3 weeks ago -
Are Scrum and XP Lean? (Part 1)
Scaling Software Agility —
Authority: 403
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m working with a number of large-scale agile transformations, most deploying Scrum. However, while Scrum drives agility and efficiency for the software development team, Scrum (or XP) doesn’t have so much to offer to the line managers, directors and VPs engaged in managing ...5 weeks ago -
How ‘Buy American’ Can Hurt U.S. Firms
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog —
Authority: 414
How ‘Buy American’ Can Hurt U.S. Firms Canadian communities angered by perceived American chauvinism have started a Buy Canadian campaign to exclude U.S. bidders from municipal contracts. “If that sticks, well, there goes 25% of my business,” said Mr. Pokorsky. “To me, Ontario may as well be Indiana.” ...8 weeks ago -
Thoughts on Lean Thinking
Scaling Software Agility —
Authority: 403
As readers of this blog are probably aware, I’ve been thinking a lot about Lean Thinking lately. (see Lean Thinking category on this blog). The cause is natural: as agile moves across the chasm to the large (and really large) enterprise, which is where I spend most of my time, impediments to further enhancing ...8 weeks ago
