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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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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The Plan, Do, Check, Act Cycle (The Deming Cycle)

The Deming Cycle was proposed by W. Edwards Deming (see The Pioneers of Quality for more on Deming himself). It is a continuous improvement model made up of 4-steps which you repeat over and over, bringing incremental improvement each time, and …

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Rolling Wave Planning

Rolling Wave Planning is an approach to project and program planning. I’ve heard it said that an Economist is someone who can tell you exactly why something has happened, but who can’t predict what will happen next. That’s probably …

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The SCRUM Process | SCRUM Framework

This article gives a very quick executive summary of the Scrum process / framework.

It should be noted that referring to the Scrum Process above is somewhat of a misnomer. This is because Scrum is a framework, not a process. …

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