Its interesting that you bring up defect fixes, in large enterprises that really seems to be the only place that kanban and pull work relatively well. In most of the environments I've seen, agile teams simply do not control or have enough insight in…
yeah, the Toyota product development system is actually very different than their manufacturing system. For example, cast a wide net and encourage variability in product development, stamp out variability in manufacturing. Most of the fundamental pr…
Have you read anything on the Toyota Product Development system. I've read quite a bit about Lean Product development recently, and it is dramatically more applicable to software development than lean manufacturing. For example, lean manufacturing s…
I was kind of waiting to hear back from Arlo on his experiences with the Dutch systems, but I know he is quite busy with Agile 2009. Meanwhile, I wanted to add some thoughts.
I re-read the Holacracy white paper and have the following observations:…