Lean Organization or:
what’s slowing you down?
Whale Rider Conference
Moscow, 19 September 2011
Tomasz de Jastrzębiec Wykowski [email protected]
Do not lean?
Do Lean!
• 1000 years of experience in software development
• Hands-on practice using both traditional approaches (based on PMBOK, ISO, CMM and CMMI) and adaptive ones (Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming)
• Since 2010 trainer, coach and consultant @ ProCognita http://www.linkedin.com/in/wykowski
Tomasz de Jastrzębiec Wykowski
Tomasz de Jastrzębiec Wykowski
How fast others are?
How fast others are?
Can you be so fast?
You MUST!
Starting up in the garage…
Watch it growing…
Then, something goes wrong…
Invest…
Hire more people…
Tell people what to do…
Tell people how to do…
profit = revenue – costs, so cut the costs…
We’re still slow…
Can we learn from others?
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black“
--- Henry Ford ---
Mass production requires large inventory
“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point
when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”
--- Taiichi Ohno ---
Removing inefficiencies
Three types of inefficiencies
Muda
In-Process Inventory
Over-Production
Over-Production
64% never or rarely
20%
Always or very often
Extra Processing
Transportation
Work Cells
Motion
Waiting
Defects
Underutilized employees’ potential
Empower people
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools --- Agile Manifesto ---
Further reading
• Taiichi Ohno, „Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production”, Productivity Press, 1984
• James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos „The Machine That Changed the World; the Story of Lean Production”, Rawson and Associates, 1990
• James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones „Lean Thinking”, Simon & Schuster, 1996; Second Edition, Free Press, 2003
• Jeffrey K. Liker, David Meier “The Toyota Way Fieldbook” , McGraw-Hill, 2005
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox „The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, North River Press, 1984, 1986, 1994, 2004
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt „It's Not Luck”, North River Press, 1994 • Mary and Tom Poppendieck:
– "Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit", Addison Wesley Professional, 2003
– „Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash”, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
– „Leading Lean Software Development”, Addison Wesley, 2009
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