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• Reboot Your Management

  How would you rebuild a country after a world war? How would you reboot your management? This was the topic for my presentation at the Reboot conference. It concerned Deming's 14 principles for management, the humanistic, long-term thinking, keep... Posted jun 26 2009, 03:05 by Martin Jul with | with no comments Filed under: lean, Deming

• What is a Truly Lean Company? - Deming Distilled

  Deming 's work is the foundation of the Toyota Production System and modern-day lean. I recently conducted a workshop his 14 points for management . One exercise was to group them to get to their essence. Here is the the result: “Practise engaged... Posted maj 07 2009, 03:12 by Martin Jul with | with no comments Filed under: lean, Deming

• New Lean Reading List: Shingo Prize Winners Announced

  The recipient's of this year's Shingo Prize have been announced . The Research and Professional Publication Prize category is a great reading list for new lean books: Steven Spear - Chasing the Rabbit . A book on how to catch up with your lean... Posted mar 31 2009, 02:46 by Martin Jul with | with no comments Filed under: lean, books, Shingo Prize

• Improve your IT-organisation with Deming's 14 points

  I have written an introduction to Deming's 14 points and how they can help you improve your IT-organisation. It is a 15-page PDF in Danish. You can download it here: Ud af krisen - http://www.ative.dk/media/989/ud%20af%20krisen%20-%20ative%20-%20a4... Posted dec 12 2008, 11:20 by Martin Jul with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: lean, Deming

• Out of the Crisis - Deming's 14 Points

  In a time where so many are excusing their failure with externalities and saying "it's the crisis" we need leadership and entrepreneurship more than ever. We are in a time of creative destruction and it is precisely these moments that offer... Posted nov 05 2008, 02:57 by Martin Jul with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: lean, Deming

• 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

• What's Your Favourite Lean Books?

  People often ask me about recommendations for the must-read books for lean and agile software development. Here is a list of some of my favourite lean books: W. Edwards Deming - the grand old man of the field, building on a strict statistical discipline... Posted feb 11 2008, 01:39 by Martin Jul with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: lean, books

• Variation And Waste - The Case for Frequent Delivery

  Imagine you are in an organisation with a one-year release cycle and you miss your annual deadline by one minute. The cost? A one-year delay. Now, try to invent a control system to ensure that we avoid this kind of delay. You would probably add some middle... Posted okt 24 2007, 09:23 by Martin Jul with | with no comments Filed under: lean, speed, waste

• Jaoo 2007

  We're off to Jaoo 2007 next week. We are bringing some poker planning cards and some "I O Scrum" t-shirts, please give us a hint if you are interested. Every day we will post a summery from the sessions of the day. Posted sep 24 2007, 07:17 by Kim Horn with | with no comments Filed under: agile, scrum, lean, ative, jaoo2007

• 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

• “Implementing Lean Software Development: Practitioners Course”, by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

  Having attended the two day “Implementing Lean Software Development: Practitioners Course” , I encourage you to join Mary and Toms classes or speeches if you get the chance, they are very inspiring and their knowledge about lean and agile are amazing... Posted maj 10 2007, 08:10 by Kim Horn with | with no comments Filed under: agile, lean, waste, value stream mapping

• Impressions From Our Lean/Agile Dinner with Mary and Tom Poppendieck

  This Tuesday we hosted a dinner for the Danish Agile User Group with Mary and Tom Poppendieck in the great Restaurant Grønnegade . The charming old house from 1689 with its modern European slow-food set the stage for an evening of great conversation... Posted apr 26 2007, 10:24 by Martin Jul with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: agile, lean, ative

• Iterative Development Gone Wrong - The Mini-Waterfall Anti-Pattern

  One of the frequent mistakes in transitioning to agile development is to implement iterative development by doing consecutive "mini-waterfalls". No matter how iterative it might be, if you are relying on the "W"-word, you are still... Posted mar 18 2007, 05:46 by Martin Jul with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: test, agile, acceptance test, anti-pattern, tdd, lean, waste

• The Five Whys of Lean

  Root cause problem resolution is one of the core practises in agile. If the engine requires new oil every 500 km we don't just top it up with oil. We fix the engine. Adding oil is just a hack that leaves technical debt in the system and slows down... Posted feb 20 2007, 01:06 by Martin Jul with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: lean, five whys

• Why Going Faster Matters

  I did a talk on Value Stream Mapping from Lean last Thursday at the Danish Agile User Group meeting (slides in Danish are available at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DanishAgileUserGroup/files/ (registration required)). One of the many interesting... Posted feb 04 2007, 06:34 by Martin Jul with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: lean, speed, waste, value stream mapping