FIrst, let me say that I'm a relatively new member of this forum and a relatively newcomer to the Lean paradigm. I also have had a name change in Yahoo groups...
Hello mg_blackbelt, Thanks for your email. On Tuesday, August 1, 2006, at 10:06:18 AM, ... Is the belt of a person training toward black usually black? I would...
Hi Mike, I have been attracted to Lean specifically because it seems so much more useful in a software development context than traditional Six Sigma. I don't...
Hi Mark, A few thoughts in reply... ... more ... At my company we're calling the initiative "Lean Six Sigma". My coach is encouraging me not to think "Lean"...
Mike First off, you are going to be a Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt. Learn to see waste; waste is opportunity. Anywhere from 50-90% of the processes you will be...
Somehow, I'm still not able to resist the opportunity to lob an occasional bomb into a discussion. Like most discussions on lean, this one shows some ...
Dave, Not exactly a bomb. Regardless of the original intent, the seven wastes were clearly on Ohno's mind very early. The discussion with Mike was more along...
Corey, Apropos your question, I came across this article on the limits of value-stream mapping: http://www.superfactory.com/articles/Smalley_TPS_vs_Lean.htm. ...
Hello all, I am sorry to have missed most of this discussion due to being on a canoe trip. I really appreciated the analogy: Lean is paddling in a straight...
Hi Mary, I agree that re-learning is wasted effort. However, I think the waste that needs to be tackled is the waste of forgetting it in the first place. Why...
All, I'm new to this group: my background is in Operations Research and spent a lot of time doing industrial engineering work as well as software engineering...
I couldn't agree more, Mark. When I was at 3M I worked with a community of scientists who were continually filing new patents. You can't file for a patent...
Far be it from me to disagree with such opinion... :) Yes, the loss of knowledge is a waste. Yes, having to relearn is a waste. Who was it that said that if...
... The concept of Knowledge itself is a bit slippery around the edges. What's differentiates knowledge from raw information? What differentiates it from bad...
Allan, Mary, Don't you hate it when people on a newslist agree; it takes all the fun out of it. The NASA discussion would be a great one. We could spend quite...
What if maintaining knowledge you don't use is a waste? What if re-learning is cheaper? For instance, with the NASA example, if they maintained their knowledge...
I'd like to weigh in here, without much context, as I'm not sure where to fit in or with whom I may agree or disagree. There's a suggestion on the table that...
On Thu Aug 10 02:41:59 PDT 2006, Ron Jeffries ... Right, putting it on paper doesn't save the "knowledge", in fact it is worse than that. It creates an...
... I disagree that such a suggestion was made - except perhaps when relevent. The idea is to view that losing knowledge that is more expensive to re-create...
... I realized the way I said this can be mis-interpreted. I don't mean think about waste in this general way. I mean that whenever considering anything,...
Hello Alan, Thank you for your note. On Thursday, August 10, 2006, at 9:11:59 ... Yes, except that this is a perfect example of how saying "drive on the right,...
... knowledge, ... the ... we ... Note that with the process we came up with we didn't "imagine that people would read it" we made it so people would read it. ...
Hello Alan, Thanks for writing. On Thursday, August 10, 2006, at 8:58:04 AM, you ... Yes. I think there is an /implicit/ suggestion about writing things down,...
I do have to run now, but couldn't resist responding one more time... ... I have tried this (as some of my older staff will tell you) and it doesn't work. ;) ...
Hello Alan, Thanks for your ideas. On Thursday, August 10, 2006, at 9:47:26 AM, ... Yes. As I tried to express, that's why it was so cool. ... Yes. And since...
I was a deshi at Toyota for several weeks as part of a learning excercise, just watching and practicing in the Hebron, Kentucky Dojo. Learning at Toyota is...
I'd say writing things down is done so that if someone needs to re-learn something then they have a starting point. And with a bit of luck, it will help fast...
... The whole notion of apprenticeship is unfortunately deprecated in much of the industry. Software development is not taught in a fashion that promotes...
Hello Corey, Thank you for your note. On Friday, August 11, 2006, at 11:37:20 AM, ... Counting my mistakes helped me a lot. Writing a book where I recorded...
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