I'm very aware of the danger of sub-optimizing when you focus on just a portion of the value stream. But when your agile sponsor only has control over a part...
Good question, Nancy (and hello). I think it is the hard application of good common sense. Example: If you have a person or people ready to work who have a...
... that's a great quote paraphrased. It highlights that there is no black and white in lean - it's all about principles in a context. thanks for the post! ...
... Yes - a good tactic - let people get partway into the problem and then they will see for themselves that WIP increasing is a bad thing. Then it will be...
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After a long week I just feel like ranting. Big Consultants Use "Lean" Buzz to Take Advantage of Bureaucrats So recently I had the privilege to witness a...
Carson, IMHO, the real problem here is not with the consulting firm, it is with the enterprise executives who are so far removed from reality that they bought ...
Hi Carson, I read this and it sounds sadly familiar. Lean is and has been a fad in the most part. The term Lean itself raises more question then it provides...
Paul: Well, I wonder if you would consider agile a fad too! We've taken organizations as large as 4000 developers to business agility using Lean-Thinking as...
Hi, ... I started contracting back in October to bounce around the industry quickly, and let me tell you Agile is indeed a HUGE fad. Both Fortune 500 companies...
Hi Carlson, In a company I was recently doing training in Scrum I mentioned Lean and got a lot of negative feedback. Turns out McKinsey was "leaning" their...
Robin: Good post. See some embedded comments to clarify. Alan ... As you say, what they did really wasn't Lean. ... I have never seen a successful Lean...
I'm in the midst of helping a fairly large org starting on it's transformation to a more lean state. And do not want be one of those consultants in the "hand...
Koenigsaecker recommends that senior managers join one of the teams doing a week-long Kaizen event as become one of the team. He says that unless senior...
I think the fact that alot of people get to move on and not feel the repurcussions of bad decisions is one of the key problems. Somehow we have to link senior...
Carson, I agree with many if your comments, but having a label to group ethics, principles and practices makes it easier to spread and educate. Yes drinking...
Jeff Anderson agileconsulting.blogspot.com On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Robin Dymond <robin.dymond@...> ... I'm in a big 5, have alot of experience with...
To underscore my approach here (agreeing with Jeff) – I treat my beliefs as heuristics. That is, they are good shortcuts until I see that they don’t work....
You do need to include management. The common dismissal of management as not interested is because many agile consultants insist on giving things to...
Mary, Great advice I am going to run with it. And put out the ask that department managers get involved as team members on specific improvement sessions, this...
Hi Alan, Why do most of your posts come across as blatant marketing for you and your company? I don't recall this thread containing RFPs or RFIs. Please...
Robin: You asked for an example so I gave you one. People are always saying - you can't do this. The best way to counter that is to give an example that it can...
Alan This is not the first time I (and others) have raised this issue with you. I am not able to offer you posting/writing suggestions, however more patient...
By the way I did not ask you for an example in the previous post, neither did the person originating the thread. Robin. ... -- Sent from my mobile device Robin...
Robin: Thought you might like this post. I'll relate a failure - and to do so, I'll have to give some specifics for the same reasons as before. This was for an...
