Watch an A3 Evolve From Start to "Finish"

-- Tony Markel I recently got to a good point with an A3 and wondered what it would look like if you could step back and forth in time to...

Virtual Servers: What a difference a year makes

-- Tony Markel Recently, the virtual server team passed a significant milestone.  It's been one year since we established a small cr...

Winds of Change - Part 4: Lean BPM

by Tom Bellinson Well, it's finally time to put this series out of its misery.  I'd like to thank both of my readers (especially...

A Good Change

Winds of Change Kaizen, or Japanese for "a good change" is the Lean concept of continual improvement at all levels.  This we...

Winds of Change - Part 2: Lean Thinking

-- By Tom Bellinson In the last (ahem!) exciting episode of Winds of Change, I offered an overview and brief history of lean.  This time...

Winds of Change - Part 1: Lean & BPM

By Tom Bellinson I've been in a blogging rut lately, but I'm about to come out of it with a vengeance.  First, a bit of backgrou...

Getting to the right problem statement in an A3

For those of you that are in favor of A3 problem solving methods or for those of you that are experimenting in your daily work... or perha...

Focus.

-- Tony Markel Alternative Title: Squirrel! I suffer from lack of focus sometimes.  Okay, a little more than sometimes.  When life i...

First Iteration with Scrumban and Pull Workflow

We planned an iteration dedicated to learning for the DMS team. The goals were to begin working through the thinnest slice of the business...

Road to Team Transformation with Canvases

If you walked through the collaboration space in building 200 you may have noticed that the wall between poll location C3 and B4 has been la...

The Results of Lean Thinking Applied to Schedulon and A/V

-- Tony Markel A little over a year ago, we were failing to meet customer expectations when it came to A/V service.  In a three mon...

Feeling Burned Out and Overwhelmed - Five Coping Strategies

This is a personal account of how I regain my productivity when I've dug myself into a productivity hole at work.  Hopefully some of w...

Book Review: The Principles of Product Development Flow - Second Generation Lean Product Development

Let me preface this review by stating for the record that I read a lot of non-fiction books.  Many of the books are about about man...