Making a Kaizen Event Sustainable

Mark R. Hamel has played a transformative role in lean implementations across a broad range of industries including aerospace and defense, automotive, building products, business services, chemical, durable goods, electronics, insurance, healthcare and transportation services. Mark has successfully coached lean leaders and associates at both the strategic and tactical level. A National Shingo Prize examiner, Read More …

Managing Scrum of Scrums

Jon M. Quigley PMP CTFL has nearly twenty five years of product development experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management. He holds multiple degrees, seven patents, has authored and contributed to numerous books and magazine articles as well as teaching and speaker at technical schools, universities and conferences on a variety Read More …

Throttling Work in Process

Personal Kanban notable Jim Benson of Modus Cooperandi  in a recent podcast explained how he views constraints. Related Podcast and Transcription: Drowning in Work Joe:   Well, you have a matrix in the book where you talk about constraints and some of them bad and good. Can constraints be like your throttle for your work? Jim: Read More …

Intuition, Do You Have It?

Discover the power of intuition & unleash an entirely new realm of possibilities for career, relationships & health. When you sleep, your brainwaves slow down to 7 – 14 cycles per second, and then to 4 – 7 cycles per second. This is when your capacity for creativity, problem-solving and empathy increases by leaps and Read More …

Keys to Building a Lean Agile Software Enterprise

Dean Leffingwell is a consultant, entrepreneur, software executive and technical author who provides product strategy, business advisory services and enterprise-level agility coaching to large software enterprises. Related Podcast and Transcription: Leffingwell on the Lean Agile Train An excerpt from the podcast: Joe:  What are the keys to building a Lean-Agile software enterprise? Dean:  Working towards Read More …

Can You Assign Work Better?

Jim Benson returns to the Business901 podcast next week. His company Modus Cooperandi combine Lean principles from manufacturing, Agile methodologies from software design, and the communications revolutions of social media, as process and tool infrastructure. Jim is best known for his seminal work, Personal Kanban. He is @ourfounder on Twitter. Our conversation centered on his new Read More …