Comments on: How to rescue failing software projects: The Toyota Way

By: links for 2009-11-30 « The Adventures of Geekgirl

links for 2009-11-30 « The Adventures of Geekgirl — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:04:10 +0000

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By: Manu

Manu — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:02:09 +0000

It would be great if you could add a retweet button in the post so that one can easily share it.

By: Ralph Bingham

Ralph Bingham — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:29:13 +0000

As a practiced Kaizen facilitator with nearly 20 years of experience in implementing the lessons learnt from the Toyota Production System (TPS), it’s great to see yet another area of opportunity to apply “Lean Thinking”. I would challenge a couple of things, firstly Kaizen is a process of “continuous improvement” through elimination of non value-added activities or waste, not just the “5 Whys” method which is just one of the tools in the improvement toolbox. Secondly, bringing in someone with expertise of how to use these improvement tools and can facilitate team activities, is very valuable and they can view the processes with fresh eyes and no preconceptions. The biggest challenge is achieving the cultural change necessary for success and leadership with the vision to try something different!

By: Improving software the right way « Small Business+Phoenix+Software

Improving software the right way « Small Business+Phoenix+Software — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:44:21 +0000

[...] software the right way This is a great article on improving software using in the principles of Kaizen (i.e. continuous improvement). I’ve [...]

By: Chris Lamothe

Chris Lamothe — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:08:58 +0000

What a fantastic introduction to the Toyota way. As someone who’s always looking for ways to optimize and improve my team’s processes, it’s great to see some formalized ways of doing so.