Pay extra attention to large, long-term commitments. If you’re buying a house, be aware of the hidden costs of homeownership. Furniture, maintenance (I budgeted at least 1% of the home price each year), landscaping, taxes and more. These big costs are what can tank a retirement plan. ...
The “building software is like building a house” analogy is often used to claim that Lean lacks the design “blue prints” that other processes have. The argument goes that builders needed to understand how the entire house works with structural support, plumbing lines and electrical circuits a...
This is the case whether I am looking to improve a process to new levels; whether I am trying to hit some kind of KPI goal; whether I am trying to understand the root cause of a problem; whether I am seeking to develop a new product; whether I am trying to influence someone’s dec...
I can also ask the learner to say, “I intend to [ read what is in Box #1 ] in order to [ read what is in Box #2].” For example, “I intend to rearrange the end of Alice’s work path in order to cut 3 seconds of walking from her cycle time.” If that sentence doesn’t...
We have a tendency to get attached to our personal favorite agile approach, whether that is Scrum, XP, or something else, and regard alternative approaches as somehow inferior or derivative. However, the Kanban Method has some useful additions, so let us see what it has to offer. ...
Recently, curriculum additions were made emphasizing entertaining and inventive games. For material review purposes, we found that a “Jeopardy”-style quiz game was popular. We also use a match game, to pair concepts with answers; a coin toss game, to measure the number of heads-or-tails...
This Lean TPM from our article, approach proposes tree additions to the current understanding of the TPM system: the 7Ss as a critical first step in any improvement program; instant maintenance; improvement setup operations. A company cannot make business gains solely by using cost-cutting ...
and from this huge stockpile Kanzler carved out packages of components which were despatched as compulsory additions to every shipment of new cars, these shipments themselves being systematically increased by the factory to use up the large stocks of vehicles unsold because of the recession (Lacey, ...
YearTaxesTotal assessmentequalsLandadded toAdditions 2024 $12,129 $1,026,610 = $445,000 + $581,610 2023 $11,862 $1,030,220 = $445,000 + $585,220 2022 $11,460 $982,450 = $400,000 + $582,450 2021 $10,605 $886,360 = $334,000 + $552,360 2020 $10,181 $843,850 = $33...
The Otak-otak was also described to be very flavourful and well-seasoned, and the Gulai Tumis (Tamarind Fish Curry) was memorable and sported great viscosity. “Sea bass was used, and the meat was very bouncy and fresh,” the inspector adds. ...