Much like rafting down a river, leaders encounter different classes of rapids from the less challenging to the near impossible. Market forces and limited resources, internal and external, bring a similar spectrum of difficulty. Every day is not a class 5 rapid; every day is not a championship...
“Show Me the Money”, brought focus to cutting costs in specific price-sensitive markets. This included removing workplace production defects, while also improving quality and productivity. The second, “Everybody Plays”, sought to bring Six Sigma business improvement processes to all product...
I am going to start off by acknowledging that my background with Six Sigma and its other x-Sigma flavors is mostly anecdotal. I have read the books, I have worked as a Quality Director in a company with a lot of Six Sigma background, and I have done a lot of continuous improvement ...
Lean Thinking, and Six Sigma tools to identify client’s initial largest impact opportunity in terms of increasing profit and company valuation while decreasing business-related interruptions and business-cycle failure risk.Clients that pursue these methods routinely increase...
The later choice is like paying your tuition up-front, then skipping all of your classes and wonder why you aren’t getting it. Learning = Adapting to Change Organizations that manage in ways that regard learning as part of their everyday experience are much more adaptive to changes and ...
being very productive. They had embraced the mindset and were doing all the right things, but success still eluded them. As someone who had dedicated their career to spreading the word about agile and helping organizations adopt it, this was extremely concerning for me. What were they doing ...
two week window or a known time frame, I have to have all of the disciplines that CMM wants me to have in place, in order to do that. But I wouldn’t necessarily be measuring every single one; I would know that my overall measurement shows me that I’ve got my process in control...
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in which there is no backlog, or maybe just a short one. I was referred to your book but didn’t find it. I must admit, it sounds like lazy Agile to me – just do whatever comes in, don’t bother setting expectations. Any idea what I’m talking about here, where it comes from...
Some of the hourly mechanics in the classes I was teaching had already been notified they were being laid off. That could have created some real awkward moments – and it did. But most of those guys were actually thankful to have been sent to the class when there was no business need ...