If you have not been part of it you may not appreciate the military term of cadence. I spent 3 years in the 82nd Airborne running 2 miles a day to the sound of a voice similar to this.. 30 years later, I can still repeat most of these cadences. It forever produced a rhythmic Read More …
Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast is a good introduction to TWI and Read More …
When I watch this video, I can only think how many times that I have done this! When you think of managing your queue, what causes a story, task or even a customer to get shuffled like this? The frustration occurs of course because there is little if any management of the queue. In a Read More …
In a Value Stream Mapping Process, one of the metrics used is what is called percent complete and accurate. It is a way of measuring the quality of hand-offs inside the value stream. You get a sense of the rework or work not completed that is being transferred from one stage to the next. Six Read More …
One of the tenants I am convinced of is that Work in Process is wasteful and unproductive. If you look at this from a Sales and Marketing Process it basically says that the more people you have in your sales and marketing funnel the more unproductive you are. A blog recently by Jim Benson of Read More …
Do you think it is Scrum? Do you think it is Kanban? Do you think it is a Marketing Funnel? …or is it all three? Or maybe Agile? This is an empirical view of Value Stream Marketing. The drawing is reflective of a Scrum sprint. Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management and Read More …