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everything in its place

A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Gemba Kaizen by Masaaki Imai. Just like all the other books on lean manufacturing, I found it extremely rewarding and thought-provoking, while at the same time...

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a fish out of water

There’s loads to learn here, about what people do and about the way they do it. Fortunately many who’ve trodden this path before me have recorded their thoughts and findings; unfortunately, they wrote...

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tidy gemba

My new manager wanted to give me some background reading to do today. So we went to the place on the fileserver where all the documents are stored, so that he could “show me around”. Naturally, we...

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clean firetrucks

Seth Godin suggests that Clean Firetrucks are a sign that the firemen are focussing on the wrong things: instead of washing their vehicles they should be out preventing future fires. In my opinion –...

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inventory in software development

One of the central tenets of lean (and TOC, for that matter) is that inventory is not an asset, but is waste. In particular, carrying inventory incurs storage costs. David Carlton is reading up on...

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counting the cost of broken windows

In Quantify the cost of the things you wouldn’t have had to do, if only… Dave Nicolette attempts to calculate the overall cost to his project of a single defect. He arrives at a total of $8,712.50!...

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why YAGNI acts to EXPLOIT the bottleneck

Clarke asked me to explain my earlier throw-away remark that YAGNI forms part of the EXPLOIT step in moving the bottleneck away from development, so here goes… YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It) is an...

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