James Macnee – Giving People Direction
Pod cast from Access Granted on 8 October 2018 James Macnee lives in the idyllic north of New Zealand where he is a consultant in the tech world designing systems […]
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7 Principles of TPS
What are the 7 principles of TPS? Reduced Setup Times: All setup practices are wasteful because they add no value and they tie up labor and equipment. By organizing […]
Characteristics of a DevOps Organisation
Supports the two primary goals of DevOps; Shortening lead times and Generating rapid feedback Encourages the free flow of information Gives accountability to the teams to own their own delivery […]
The DevOps Handbook : Book review
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations Authors:Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis Released Oct 2016. The DevOps Handbook was over […]
Inspired- Book Summary
The product managers main responsibility is to look at all the opportunities and to find or define product that fit the opportunity. They take the product from a concept through […]
Lean UX – Book Review
The goal of this book is to teach you how to apply the principles of lean to design. Lean UX is not an individualistic working […]
Lean Startup: Book Review
Lean Startup by Eric Ries : Book Review Established companies are managed by making a plan and having someone supervise the people implementing the plan. Most companies make a plan, […]
The Principles of Product development Flow: Book Review
Book review: The Principles of Product Development Flow Chapter 1. The Principles of Flow “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for […]
Six Simple Rules
Six Simple Rules Complexity in the 21st century comes from clients having many options and with a rapidly changing marketplace. The state of business in the 21st century has become […]
Magic of Productivity – Cooperation
Have you ever wondered why many things are not being accomplished at your work place? Or have you wondered why your team’s productivity is not increasing but rather decreasing? Cooperation […]
Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels– Book Review
Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels – Book Review This book is based on the online course developed by Jeffrey K. Liker who wrote the classic Lean book “The Toyota […]
Our Iceberg is Melting – Book Review
Our Iceberg is Melting is a simple fable of a colony of penguins living on a melting iceberg. The fable shows the Eight Steps needed to ensure successful organisational change with a […]
Tribal Leadership – Book Review
Throughout his book Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh promotes this book called Tribal Leadership.Due to his promotion, I decided to read Tribal Leadership. The book gives a view of a company […]
The Machine That Changed The World – Book Review
The machine that changed the world is the classic book on Toyota, revealing its production system as the basis for enduring success. It was written by James P. Womack and Daniel […]
Lean Thinking – Banish Waste And Create Wealth In Your Corporation – Book Review
Lean Thinking is another classic Lean book written by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. Their original book that started the Lean movement outside of Japan was “The Machine […]
Kanban – Successful Evolutionary Change For Your Technology Business – Book Review
The book ‘Kanban’ by David Anderson shows how you can apply the Lean principle of Kanban to software development. Unlike scrum which has a heavily defined method, Kanban provides a […]
Start-up Nation – Book Review
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel – a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of […]
NUTS – Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe For Business And Personal Success – Book Review
NUTS is the truly inspirational story of how Southwest Airlines took on the big boys and won. Southwest Airlines revolutionised the Airline industry by challenging the norms and doing many […]
“This Is Lean. Resolving The Efficiency Paradox” – Book Review
“This is Lean” is a concise, easy to grasp book on Lean giving the reader the key principles in a short and easy to read book. In the training courses […]
The Toyota Way To Lean Leadership – Book Review
Lean Leadership is considered the crucial ingredient that is often missed when companies attempt to implement lean. This book defines Lean Leadership and gives guidance to those who are looking […]
Joy, Inc – Book Review
One of my favourite books I have read is ‘Joy, Inc’. It is a book written by Richard Sheridan a cofounder of Menlo Innovations and shows how they have developed […]
Training Within Industry – The Foundation of Toyota Training
Training within industry At the beginning of 1940 after Germany had conquered France the US government initiated the TWI (training within industry) program to accelerate production of war munitions within […]
Agile Manifesto and Principles
The Agile Manifesto The Agile Manifesto was written in February of 2001, at a summit of seventeen independent-minded practitioners of several programming methodologies. The participants didn’t agree about much, but […]
Spotify Software Engineering Culture
Below I have embedded two videos that give a good understanding of the Spotify culture. They provide an excellent overview of a number of Lean / Agile principles and how […]
Cheap lesson in Lean – Learn as you feast.
Visit a fast food restaurant and observe to get a cheap lesson in Lean. Two restaurants that are my favorites in displaying a cheap lesson in lean are In-and-Out Burger […]
What is Lean? Delivering only what customers value.
How would you define Lean? You may hear definitions such as Kanban, 5s or PDCA. There are so many definitions that come out of the various Lean tools that it […]
why why why why why …… 5 why’s
Why should we care about 5 why’s? For a continuous improvement initiative you will need staff that see problems, react to problems and resolve problems. Lean has a go and […]
Let’s get to the root of it – Lean problem solving
Typically when you are resolving issues you apply a short term solution that resolve the one instance that is occurring, similar to putting a band aid on the issue. This […]
Gemba in IT – Visualising Your Work
Gemba is a Japanese term that is literally translated as the real place. Often in Lean management you will hear the term of “going to gemba”, which is to go […]
Value Streams in Software Development
Value In Lean, value is defined from the perspective of the customer. It is not what you or your shareholders consider as value, it is what your customer’s value. What value […]