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Your stance towards learning

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Ed

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 →

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Leader Standard Work & The Team Kickoff Meeting

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Ed

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 →

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Do unmade decisions cause you stress?

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Ed

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 →

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