Lean Planning: We started off Looking at Work

My guest for this week’s Busines901 Podcast is Gregory A. Howell, co-founder and managing director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit organization devoted to production management research in design and construction. Howell brings 35 years of construction industry project management, consulting and university-level teaching experience to LCI. An excerpt from the podcast: Greg Read More …

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, Time Based Thinking limits Lean Sales and Marketing. This is a transcription of the podcast. Mary Poppendieck has been in the Information Technology industry for Read More …

Poppendiecks on Process Control Thoughts

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 an entire podcast. Mary Poppendieck has been in the Information Technology industry for over thirty years. She has managed solutions for companies in several disciplines, Read More …

Business901 #1 Podcast of the Year

Jim (“Cope”) Coplien podcast, Coplien on Agile, Lean and Architecture was the most listened Business901 podcast of the year. In the podcast, we discussed his new book, Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development. Cope’s view on Lean and Agile is quite interesting and his knowledge of the subject goes far beyond the software practices that Read More …

Timeboxing using Pomodoro!

The quickest drivers of time management is visualization, focus and clarity. What I talked about the other day is to have an action step with your reference material in hand, Evolution of Standard Work in my Sales and Marketing and Even Seinfeld used Standard Work. Be able to complete the task without having to look Read More …

Does Lean need to move beyond Deming?

The Agile Minds Group in Belgium recently held a conference on Lean Software Development. The speakers were a few of my favorite podcast guests such as Jim Benson , David Anderson and Don Reinertsen. Don is always entertaining and has such a way with explaining statistics that he makes himself difficult to argue with. This Read More …