Tag: Lean

The speed at which value moves from idea to delivered outcome with minimal friction.

A practical guide to implementing flow metrics, starting with essential measurements and building sophistication as teams mature.

W. Edwards Deming's foundational work on systems thinking, quality management, and continuous improvement.

John Shook found the way to change culture is to change behavior, through doing. When we do this, mindsets and new cultural norms will emerge much quicker.

Develop small, vertical slices of work that create incremental value and generate feedback to validate your assumptions.

Taiichi Ohno's foundational work on lean manufacturing, kanban, and the practice of going to the gemba.

Explicit constraints on the number of work items allowed in each stage of a workflow, grounded in Little's Law.