Category: Lean Management
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“The Checklist Manifesto” is a game-changing book
What is it about? The author’s key message is that the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded any single individual’s ability to manage it consistently without error despite material advances in technology, boatloads of more training and super-specialization of functions and responsibilities. Yet, despite demonstrating that checklists produce results, there is resistance…
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An example of Slack in use
There is a lot of buzz about Slack which is as sort of instant messaging system with good channel management and lots of integrations. I wanted to learn more and I found these excellent articles Slack for a dev team http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-slack-has-changed-wpmu-dev/ Slack or Yammer (a more conventional user forum manager) https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Yammer-and-Slack It seems to me…
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Visual Management – where Lean meets Agile
My current role has strategic, project and operational duties. Although these are very different disciplines there is a common management challenge, We don’t need an accurate document, we need a shared understanding @jeffpatton at Agile 2012 In agile project management we use Cockburn’s information radiators but these have a much longer history as “visual management” boards…
Dr James Bayley 