Hi, Of cause you can improve without standard work. Just as many other tools from TPS and Lean they have more than one purpose. There is often at least one...
Hi Patrick, You make a good point about the end-to-end. That was only implicit in my main focus on the cost of long lead times and on the depth of inventory ...
(rsponding to Eb) ... Having wrestled with this dilemma in the past, I came up with a way of thinking that helps me - perhaps it will help others. In...
Hi, i’m new to this group and i’d like to make a question to the community: I’m representing a group of programmers from Chile that support the agile...
Hi Eric, http://www.amazon.co.jp/ Click on "In English" at the top right. Google Chrome's integrated translator also helps. :) It looks like Amazon JP doesn't...
Mike and Patrick, Thanks for your thoughts and ideas - and Mike, thanks for starting off this stream of discussion. I have another question that perhaps got...
A friend of mine likes to differentiate between project and portfolio management with the traffic analogy. Managing a project is like driving a car and...
Amazon.co.jp does indeed have David Anderson's "Kanban" book here http://tinyurl.com/ckm3dnp but it is in English. The Japanese translation will be available...
Folks, My next Advanced Kanban class in the United States starts Wednesday (May 23rd) in Port Angeles, Washington. It's rare that I get to sleep at home and...
This is a reminder that the remaining places at our Kanban Leadership Retreat event in Mayrhofen, Austria June 20-22 are open to all members of this group. The...
Did anyone reply to this? It appears not! My feeling about the success of the Kanban community are as follows. Sorry this is rough and quick a better response...
It would be nice if you called out explicitly that standard work applies to a single workflow and is by implication standard to that system and not to a whole...
... Dare I say, that "learning" as a purpose was never intended to be hidden. Standard work was abused and hence learning was driven out in many occasions. ...
Folks, We don't allow recruiters to post jobs here as we don't want to encourage parasitic behavior on our community. However, a firm in Atlanta has reached...
Hi Mahesh, What we're trying to do is to make sense both of common problems and stories of success, and I'm going to be very careful with my use of labels if...
Hi Jack, That's a good analogy, kinda what I had in mind with "breadth". One problem with traditional ways of describing and managing process (it's one reason...
Hi all, The association Lean Kanban France is calling for speakers for the conference Lean Kanban Paris 2012. The conference will consist of sessions of...
(responding to Eb) ... Ah! Thanks for prompting the clarification... I was talking about "how to respond to the situations that are presented to us". This is...
Yes, This is a very important part. Standard work is how work is done in a single team in a single workflow. This is the local baseline. If two teams are...
Hi Ed, Agreed, different workflows can have different standard work. All processes steps can have standard work and will probably have very different levels of...
Jack, Nice analogy indeed. I do belief strongly that different things are at play at different levels. Different scale really means different properties in...
Hi, I was recently asked about the Dolphin Principle and how it might be related to Kanban. I have never heard about it and a quick Google search did not help...
Hi Arne, maybe, you mean the Dolphin Strategy, a licensed management method for coordination and alignment of team behavior, developed by Dudley Lynch and Paul...
