Joe the Developer waltzed into work one sunny Tuesday morning and was approached by Kenny the Project Manager, who asked if the feature Joe was working on was done.
[View Post]Do you know what WIP is? No? You must have fallen asleep in business school! Work in Process, also known as WIP inventory, is all the work and products created on the path to making something of value that is to be sold.
[View Post]In Lean thinking, waste is anything that does not contribute to creating customer value. When I was recently asked to temporarily step into the ScrumMaster role for my team, I was able to see the power of the impediment process to eliminate waste.
[View Post]I started a discussion comparing the relative suitability of Lean and Agile approaches from the perspective of what kind of problem you are trying to solve: a complicated problem or a complex problem. I now want to follow up with a more detailed example of a complicated problem.
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