David J. Anderson is credited with the first implementation of a Kanban process for software development, in 2005. David leads a management consulting firm focused on improving performance of technology companies. He has been in software development nearly 30 years and has managed teams on agile software development projects at Sprint, Motorola, Microsoft, and Corbis. Read More …
Most large manufacturers last year failed to reach their cost-savings targets, despite significant investments in “lean manufacturing,” “Six Sigma” and other productivity programs as part of their overall retrenchment efforts in this tepid economy. Nearly 70% of manufacturing executives say that their manufacturing-improvement efforts led to a reduction in manufacturing costs of less than 5%, Read More …
Working on supply side economics is not putting people back on the payrolls. Commentator Robert Reich has another idea: Work on increasing demand for goods and services here at home. Listen to this audio: I am not arguing political issues, I am just trying to build supporting evidence for why supply side solutions are not Read More …
This is very interesting concept and one of the foremost thoughts that I have seen lately. It is not about one particular “thing” but about a collection of components. Watch live streaming video from mobilize2011 at livestream.com What this does allow is for niche players and ideas to take hold. But what you will have Read More …
Alan Shalloway founder and CEO of Net Objectives was the guest for 3 episodes of the Business901 podcast and this is the transcription of the entire series. It turned out being a 41 pages of some of the latest thinking in the Lean, Agile and Kanban communities. Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Read More …
The concept of PDCA (Plan Do Check Act) is based on the scientific method, as developed from the work of Francis Bacon (Novum Organum, 1620). The scientific method can be written as “hypothesis” – “experiment” – “evaluation” or plan, do, and check. Shewhart described manufacture under “control” – under statistical control – as a three Read More …