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Eventually, this group of ideas formed the core of the now world-famous Toyota Way: •Kaizen: continuous improvement (predating Shewhart but perhaps inspired by Sakichi reading Henry Ford’s book). •Jidoka: the machine stops when there’s a problem. •Andon cord: any worker can stop the assembly line when there’s a problem. •Go to gemba:** the supervis
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John P Reilly • Implementing the TM Forum Information Framework (SID)
We consider the team to be the smallest entity of delivery within the organization.
Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais • Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
two and about 10 to 12 engineers.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
we abandon the practice of trying to protect each task, and instead work to protect the overall project from the effects of variability).
Gerald Kendall • Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability
To maintain the core of your product there are usually one or two things that have to stay still while everything else spins and changes around them.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
What are your business’s “rules of production”?
Jeffrey W. Sass • Everything I Know about Business and Marketing, I Learned from THE TOXIC AVENGER: (One Man's Journey to Hell's Kitchen and Back)
an adaptation of a technique common in the world of industrial manufacturing: switching the flow of their genetic sequencing process from “push” to “pull.” In a push-based process, each stage pushes work onward to the next as soon as it’s done. In a pull-based process, by contrast, each stage pulls in new work only when it’s ready for it. At