Testing Bus Charter with the Lean Startup Method
Practical application of the Lean Startup principles through a charter bus booking website. How many business ideas have you had that you have never gone forward with because it is […]
Practical application of the Lean Startup principles through a charter bus booking website. How many business ideas have you had that you have never gone forward with because it is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 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” 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]