Dzone just published my Lean article ‘We’re not Japanese and we don’t build cars’. Please take a look and give me your comments. Have a great Christmas and New Year everyone!….

A few weeks ago I flew to Canada to deliver presentations in Calgary and Toronto. This time it was for joint presentations with Kraig Parkinson, who works out of our Canada office. The nice folk at InfoQ were at the Toronto presentation to record it. You’ll find the video here: Lean Software Development Presentation.
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I few years ago I got to hear a Toyota MD talk about frog and bike thinkers. The MD in question was an Australian that was being coached by leadership in Japan. Here’s my summary of what he said…
There are two types of thinkers in the world, frog thinkers and bike thinkers. If we are […]

I think this is a question on the minds of a lot of people in the IT industry at the moment. The Lean operations community have been on their journey longer than we have in IT and from my experiences at Lean 2008 I think that they are starting to really understand what Lean is […]

A3 reports have been a favourite Lean tool of mine for a long time. The idea is a simple one… All reports should be presented on a single side of a single piece of A3 paper. The philosophy is that ‘less is more’, all the information required should be concise, anything else is just fluff.
Toyota […]

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday of last week hanging out at Lean 2008 at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne, Australia. The event was organised by Lean Enterprise Australia and they flew in some great speakers from all around the world to talk on all things Lean alongside some locals who are doing some really interesting […]