Hi Mike, ... They would become a lean personal transportation company. Beaming up, Dale -- Dale Emery -- Consultant -- Resistance as a Resource Web:...
How about the 'Super Shuttle' concept that you see at most major airports? Mary Poppendieck www.poppendieck.com Author of Lean Software Development: An Agile...
... And see: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit I've imagined a system for the Bay Area: it would need a good ring system (right now there...
By its nature, a bus is a batch system - fixed schedules; limited, fixed destinations. The customers "put up" with this for various reasons. A Lean Bus Company...
One of the issues is that you've got two rather different problems here. One is real mass transit to handle the massive movement of people during rush hour;...
Below is a link to an article which compares Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints. This article is on www.lean.org <http://www.lean.org/> - I'm not...
I have a copy and have scanned it but not read it in detail. It looks VERY GOOD to me. It focuses on FDD as the software development method and makes some...
... http://www.lean.org/Lean/Community/Registered/ArticleDocuments/ASQ%20story%20on%20quality,%20sigma%20and%20lean.pdf ... Mary, I noticed that you didn't...
This one appears to require a login id and pwd. ... Perhaps the following article does more justice to TOC? "What is the Theory of Constraints, and How Does it...
I will be out of the office starting 12/19/2003 and will not return until 01/05/2004. If you need assistance right away, please contact Heidi Lehmann ...
Hi John, first, thanks for your help. I already had a good knowledge about lean production from Taichii Ohno. So, the idea was very clear to me. Meanwhile I ...
Hi. One of the biggest problems of software development is to provide a clean, simple structure for the product, and to keep it from devolving into a chaotic...
Hi Stephan ( and Hi John!), In John’s last e-mail he noted that at the end of each iteration you have to have software that is: “production quality and ...
Hi, The lean tool Value Stream Mapping (VSM) looks like a very powerful instrument to me to talk to managers about how our slow and slack process is doing. But...
Hi, Do you live in Scotland (or like Hagis and have a generous travel budget)? If so then the Agile-Scotland group meets monthly in Edinburgh with the odd ...
In case you haven't heard about it yet, Mary Poppendieck has an article in the February issue of Software Development Magazine. She gives an excellent ...
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The ability to attach documents to trouble tickets, the ability to see some (even basic) history tracking on each ticket, are the key things elementool does...
this e-mail wasn't supposed to go to the list. Sorry everybody! ... From: Mark Christensen Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:49 AM To: Subject: RE:...
Congratulations to Mary and Tom Poppendieck for "Lean Software Development" being nominated as a finalist in the 14th annual Jolt Awards. This nomination...
XP Agile Universe 2004 Call for Panels Proposals Calgary, Alberta, Canada August 15-18, 2004 www.agileuniverse.com www.xpuniverse.com Panel sessions provide a...
Just published in January and absolutely the most comprehensive, insightful, and wise book on Toyota. Jeff is the anchor in the Sobek- Ward-Liker trio that's...
What you term as lean manufacturing\development is actually post-fordism and was detailed in the late 80's by left-wing critics such as; David Harvey and...