Tag: statistical-process-control
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Driving continuous improvement with PDCA and measurements
Posted by Simon Baker
Continuous improvement has always been an implicit part of being agile and with the growing awareness of work by Deming, amongst others, plus the increasing popularity of Lean thinking, it is rightly becoming the center of attention. And yet, I suspect much of the continuous improvement that happens may or may not be actual improvement. I wonder if most of it proves to be negligible in the grand scheme of things.
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Sunday, 7 March 2010
Effectiveness of a real product stream
Posted by Simon Baker
I've pulled together some data for the first year of a product stream we created and plotted it as charts for throughput, rework and effectiveness.
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Friday, 26 February 2010
Inevitable and avoidable rework
Posted by Simon Baker
Without really thinking about it until now, I've been seeing two types of technical debt. The first is the quick solution implemented with dirty code. I consider this to be irresponsible. That's not to say I won't do it, just that if I decide I should do it I make sure the necessary people understand the consequences and that it's an irresponsible action to take.
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