Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I once received a powerpoint presentation from a colleague; in the business world, powerpoint presentations are often amourously called “powerpoint decks.” Well, this deck was a huge one — 80 pages long. And, no, I didn’t read it, not one single page of [...]
August 2006
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary Poppendieck, the author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software [...]
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I’ve written about the importance of team size before, here, here, and here. Previously, this is what I said: I’ve written about efficient teams before here and here. At Amazon, there is a concept of a 2-pizza team: no team should be larger [...]
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn 5S is part of the Toyota Production System, anglicized in the US as Lean. 5S is a reference for standardized cleanup, order, or tidyness. Defined, Sort (Seiri): This refers to the practice of sorting through all the tools, materials, etc., in the work [...]
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How To Be A Human
Six Sigma Workbook For Dummies — The Raffle
Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis
A Mindless Worker is a Happy Worker
The Apple iPhone Supply Chain
The Toyota A3 Report
Ask Mary Poppendieck Anything!
A Lean Case Interview
Batch-and-Queue or Single-Piece Flow
Multi-Tasking Leads to Lower Productivity
queueing theory: part 1
Zero Defects is Wrong Approach
Overmanaged and Underled
Pull Systems, Push Systems: The Paper Airplane Game
Queueing, Disneyland, and FastPass
Operational Excellence is not a Substitute for Effective Leadership or a Good Strategy
Quality and Continuous Improvement; 