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Your stance towards learning
In Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata, he describes the approach that managers and executives have towards PDCA as a management system. Quote: “If we assume that at any time anything we have planned may not work as intended, that is, that … Continue reading
Leader Standard Work & The Team Kickoff Meeting
Leader standard work is a concept in Lean Management, popularized by David Mann in his book “Creating a Lean Culture”, that creates standard work for managers. For many in the Agile community, the notion of “standard work” brings a repellent … Continue reading
Do unmade decisions cause you stress?
Decision Time, or is it? At the last Lean Software Meetup, Jeffrey Fredrick quoted a line in David Allen’s book Getting Things Done book that stuck in my mind: “Decisions not made cause stress.” As someone who has been on … Continue reading