I know what you’re thinking – another meeting? There is nothing though that improves communication in a project: A meeting even more so then a Kanban board. Any team working toward a common goal will benefit because this practice will improve your communications. The biggest resistance in meetings are because they’re poorly run. Daily scrum Read More …
This is a nifty project management tool based on Kanban principles that Jim Benson of Personal Kanban told me about during the recording of our podcast. . What is Zen? Zen is a simple and flexible application that draws on ideas from lean manufacturing to provide a new way of thinking about project management. Rather 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 have a subject waiting to be heard? You may have interest in being interviewed on the Business901 Podcast. A few of the past participants in the B901 podcast: Xerox VP of Lean Six Sigma Development VP of Product Development VP of Lean Six Sigma Training Authors: Michael Balle, The Goldmine Drew Locher, Value Read More …
The past few weeks I have been heavily immersed into Kaizen, Kanban, Agile Project Development and as a result Scrum. I have found it quite interesting but somewhat overwhelming along with a few other things I am doing. I have taxed my learning absorption level, to say the least. What did I do? I took Read More …
I am not sure that Lean will ever work within a company unless sales and marketing are on board. In fact, why start with production if we want to look from the customer’s eyes. Would it be tainted if we did not lean sales and marketing first? Have you ever won a large order and Read More …