Jiri’s Notepad

Lean and Agile are often mentioned in the same sentence and many people assume they are similar. Admittedly, there is an overlap between the two methods – mostly in their focus on pull scheduling, just-in-time techniques and people - but that is where I think the similarities end.
Lean is more of a set of general […]

(…continued from Deconstructing Lean’s costs and benefits)
I like Lean’s coherence and its focus on methods of achieving business change,  but I have some doubts about applicability of its mainstream form to IT. This post describes why and sketches out some speculations about alternative models to use for IT.
What is waste
To help you understand why I […]

Apologies for slacking off from blogging, but there has been too many things to do. On the positive side, I had plenty of time to think about, think through and then re-think some of the ideas I started earlier this year. Now getting back to the subject  I started on before I took my writer’s […]