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6 Lean Management Workshops for Indianapolis

Lean Enterprise Institute Announces 6 Lean Management Workshops for Indianapolis The training sessions will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and...

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Who is your Lean Rock star?

The old adage of Lean was that everything that we did we referenced to Toyota. I have always wondered why since so much of Lean was actually American; Ford, Deming, etc. Due to their success Toyota...

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Innovative Development with Lean

Tim Schipper and Mark Swets were my guests on the Business901 Podcast. They are the co-authors of Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast...

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Innovative Development eBook

Tim Schipper and Mark Swets were my guests on the Business901 Podcast and this is a transcription of the podcast. They are the co-authors of Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and...

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Understand Scrum, Understand Implementing PDCA

I had the pleasure interviewing James O. Coplein, author of the Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development for an upcoming Business901 podcast. I seem to learn so much from the software...

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Why Architecture is needed even in Agile?

Jim (“Cope”) Coplien was my guest on the Business901 podcast. We discussed his new book,Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development but I found Cope’s view on Lean and Agile quite interesting....

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Lean Agile Software Train, Part 2

Dean Leffingwell author of Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Agile Software Development Series) was the guest on the Businss901 podcast....

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Process Control Thoughts from the Poppendiecks

At #LSSC!12, I had a chance to listen to Mary Poppendieck’s talk on, Continuous Feedback: Process Control for Developing Software-Intensive Systems. I had a few questions afterwards that developed into...

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Process Control Thoughts

Mary and Tom Poppendieck were my guests on the Business901 Podcast, Process Control Thoughts from the Poppendiecks. Our conversation also spurred several thoughts that I expressed in a recent post,...

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Lean 3P is PDCA on Steroids

Well said by Allan R. Coletta, author of a new book The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process. Development of the 3P process is attributed to Chichiro Nakao, a...

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The Lean Innovation Engine–Turn the Key

From Tina Seelig’s book inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity: Below is the fully functional Innovation Engine, showing how all the parts are braided together. The inside of the engine is intertwined...

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Sales and Marketing are not Product Development or Innovation

I find it interesting to watch as people try to take their product development skills and innovation tactics and apply them to Sales and Marketing. I will admit there are a “few” similarities but what...

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Sales Process Engineering is not Lean Sales and Marketing

It is not the Process, it is the Conversation Joseph Juran observed, “There should be no reason our familiar principles of quality and process engineering would not work in the sales process.” In...

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Lean Learning Cycles

The concept of Learning Cycles is not just something for innovation. I think it is a mindset that is needed  to replace the traditional marketing funnel. We should be building learning experiences with...

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Out with Stage–Gates, In with Events

I ask Allan Coletta, author of The Lean 3P Advantage this question: You talk about the events, and that seems to be the key part of 3P that you do the work; you do the development, everything, then you...

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Exploration Instead Of Definition

The Define Phase is well documented in the Plan of PDCA, Define of DMAIC, Discovery of Appreciative Inquiry or even the Dream of Disney. In the Explore stage of EDCA what makes this phase different?...

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Using Lean Tools, Start at Gemba

The tools are always an important element of any process and Lean Product Development is not lacking in offering its share. Out of what may seem like 100 different tools, I think the most prevalent can...

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Don’t Start a Value Stream Mapping Process Trying to Solve a Problem!

Don’t start a Value Stream Mapping (VSM) process trying to solve a problem! Start the process trying to identify the process. You probably know there is a problem somewhere that is why you’re working...

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Hoshin Kanri is a Management System

Hoshin Kanri is a management system that creates a method of policy deployment in the form of both organizational and employees goals. It is a step by step implementation and review process from a...

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Lean Product Development Stack

This is a collection of Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Lean Product Development Lean product development (LPD) is lean approach to meet the challenges of...

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