Lean

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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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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Agile Project: Problems / Pitfalls

I’m by no means against Agile, in fact I’m a fan of Agile, but within the projects and programs I’ve been managing, I’ve been working with teams using Agile methodologies for long enough to have seen Agile go bad on …

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Put your Program on a Diet (Lean Program Management)

Lean Manufacturing is a production practice that considers the use of resources for any purpose other than creating customer value to be wasteful. It was most famously used at Toyota. Often you will see it referenced by the term Kaizen, …

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