Lean


Below you’ll find the articles at EPM from the lean category. I believe that understanding the principles of lean will help you lead your endeavors in a “mean and lean” fashion, and because of this they are more likely to be a success.

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The 7 Types of Waste

One way to increase margins and therefore profitability is to remove waste from an organization. In Japanese there is the term Muda, which describes any activity which does not value to others, is unproductive and therefore wasteful. This is a …
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Pull vs Push Systems

If you want to understand Lean Manufacturing you’re going to need to understand the difference between push and pull systems. First, let’s define each of these terms:

  • Push System: is a system in which we produce goods based on

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Lean Startup and Program Management

I’ve just finished reading an excellent book by Eric Ries called The Lean Startup. You may be wondering already what running a startup has to do with program management? If you read on you will discover they actually have much …

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Six Sigma Belts

Six Sigma is a business management strategy that aims to improve the output of processes by removing variation and errors in both manufacturing and business processes. To this end it uses a series of quality management methods. Unlike many process

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