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Tag: stop-the-line

Friday, 29 October 2010

Stopping the line to run with zero known defects

Posted by Simon Baker
At the Agile Evangelists Meetup last night, I said something like “we run with no known defects”. Thank you to Rick Vugteveen for asking me to clarify this. When we discover a defect we take steps to fix it as quickly as possible. It's a take on the Lean manufacturing concept of stop the line. We do this in two ways.
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