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Get the process right and you’ll naturally get the right results. Put another way: don’t optimize the components of a process—optimize the process itself.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
To sense if the experiments are moving you in the right direction, you first need to be able to “see” and measure your current system of work. You need to know your starting points. Here I refer again to Dan Terhorst-North’s “visualize, stabilize, optimize.” You first need to be able to visualize steps in a value stream from left to right. You need
... See moreJonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
“This is what you’re really trying to do as a railroad, run cars. You’re not trying to move trains.” A train simply being on time didn’t necessarily mean the individual cars were where they needed to be.
Howard Green • RAILROADER: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison
Get the process right and you’ll naturally get the right results. Put another way: don’t optimize the components of a process—optimize the process itself.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
The kanban rule permitted only so many stories in each of the four states. As stories flow from one state to the other, the buckets fill up. Once a bucket becomes full, it cannot accept more stories. Only when a story has been validated can it be removed from the kanban board. If the validation fails and it turns out the story is a bad idea, the re
... See moreEric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success
As Ed worked throughout the eighties, he continually refined his ideas and teachings around Profound Knowledge. Those six management principles he originally taught at Nashua soon morphed into his now-famous “14 Points for Management,” which he outlines in Out of the Crisis.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
If any operation in the flow of work takes longer than the takt time, you will not be able to keep up with customer demand.”
George Spafford • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Esta técnica fue desarrollada por Taiichi Ohno, el padre del sistema de producción Toyota, como herramienta sistemática de resolución de problemas. Lo he adaptado para usarlo dentro del modelo del método Lean Startup con algunos cambios diseñados especialmente para startups. En la base de cualquier problema aparentemente técnico hay un problema hum
... See moreEric Ries • El método Lean Startup: Cómo crear empresas de éxito utilizando la innovación continua (Spanish Edition)
At Teenage Engineering now we are about 60 and I understand that if you are involved in every little part of the business, it destroys you. So a few years ago I started to rebuild the organisation to essentially shoot me out of daily operations so now I can work on my own projects, and try to stay focused on the things I want to do.