What do you get when you combine Lean Manufacturing and Marie Kondo? Answer: 5S What is 5S? 5S is a lean methodology that results in an organized, uncluttered, clean workplace both physically and mentally. A workplace that nurtures and sustains quality, productivity and improvement. Each of the five S’s represents a Japanese word phonetically starting … Continue reading Using Lean’s 5S Methodology as a Change Tool
As more and more technology teams experience benefits with Agile ways of working, the Agile community and the organizations they serve are looking for the next frontier. Some have branded this as "Business Agility". Others have coined it the "Agile Enterprise". This is reminiscent of the leap from Lean Manufacturing to the "Lean Enterprise" in the 1990’s. A leap that’s still in mid-air with mixed results almost 30 years later.
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