April 2008 - Posts
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In some of the early Theory of Constraints literature Eli Goldratt would talk about three types of bottleneck - capacity constrained resources (CCRs), policies and [research what the third type is.] In recent, years he changed his mind and simplified...
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How do you identify a bottleneck in a kanban system? For the last 5 years, I've been teaching teams to identify bottlenecks using Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs), Figure 1. A growing gap shown as a bulge in a colored section of the graph indicates...
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The next APLN regional Leadership Summit will be held in Seattle on July 17th and 18th at the Edgewater Hotel on Seattle's seafront. We're going to have an exciting line up of speakers and we're hoping to keep the ticket price low by covering...
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At least one QCon goer shows good taste :-D Adam Shimali votes me Best Talk at QCon London 2008 . Read More...
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Pete Abilla rights points out that while the advice I gave yesterday , that in Lean decision making, value trumps flow, and flow trumps waste elimination, this does not mean that value happens first or as a priority followed by flow and followed by waste...
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It's been almost 2 years since I did my last interview on Channel 9. Recently, I was reminded of these gems when I was at QCon and Micrsoft were giving away these Channel 9 dolls (pictured) on the Visual Studio Team System booth. It occurred to me...
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