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• How Scrum Reduces Rework

  I was talking to a group of project managers today in one of our inspiration meetings. One of the inspiring questions that came up was related to why we should use Scrum or agile methods. One short answer is this: if we routinely plan to spend 1/3 of... Posted mar 25 2010, 11:05 by Martin Jul with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: agile, scrum, kaizen

• How to Improve Your Development Process Using Factory Physics

  There are only three types of buffers: extra capacity, extra inventory and extra time. This is one of the great take-aways from Factory Physics that I have frequently quoted since Thomas Blomseth introduced me to it on our lean study-tour to Japan earlier... Posted jul 21 2008, 04:35 by Martin Jul with | with no comments Filed under: process, lean, kaizen

• Bye, bye, "Done, but" - The Flat Organisation and Enterprise Scrum

  Lean organisations tend to be very flat with few layers of management. They rely on self-organisation and leadership. In this context, then, what is the role of the middle layers in the organisation? This is one of the points Ken Schwaber addresses in... Posted sep 17 2007, 08:24 by Martin Jul with | with no comments Filed under: scrum, lean, kaizen

• Retrospectives - Adapting to Reality

  Accelerated learning or "Inspect and adapt" is one of the key lean principles. It is the central feedback loop that keeps our work in sync with the real world. In agile one of the ways to do this by performing a "retrospective" at... Posted maj 20 2007, 11:35 by Martin Jul with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: retrospective, kaizen