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Listening to bad news: Bill Gates' lesson

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For Bill Gates, his most important job was making sure bad news was never ignored. A Lean lesson on [...]

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Two head profiles facing each other under the title "Near Transfer": on the left a brain above an open book ("Learning"), on the right a brain above a gear ("Practice"), connected by an arrow and a checkmark.

Near Transfer: strike while the iron is hot to learn

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The Near Transfer concept from neuroscience applied to Problem Solving: solving problems the moment [...]

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Diagram contrasting 'Move fast' and 'Do it well' in IT, where the 'VS' is crossed out and replaced by 'AND' to illustrate operational excellence.

Operational excellence = technical + organizational

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Technical excellence alone won't make a tech product succeed. How Lean Management lets you move [...]

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Lean in service of technical excellence

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How Lean, seen as a continuous learning system, turns every bug into an opportunity to eradicate [...]

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Successful tech teams have learned to solve problems

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Adopt a Lean mindset to turn every obstacle into an opportunity: Continuous Delivery, root-cause [...]

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Comparison between batch production and One-Piece Flow: three workstations handling pieces one at a time reduce space, Lead Time, and inventory compared to batch processing.

Cut your lead time with One-Piece Flow and Little's Law

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How One-Piece Flow from Lean Management reduces Lead Time, proven mathematically with Little's Law [...]

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Stop flooding your backlogs: embrace Just-in-Time

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Why the backlog creates overproduction Muda, and how Just-in-Time from Lean Management aligns [...]

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A "Muda Hunting" diagram: a trash can at the center, surrounded by seven colored shapes naming each type of waste: overproduction, overprocessing, inventory, transportation, waiting, motion and defects, each pointing an arrow toward the trash can.

The 8 Mudas of Lean: hunting waste with TIM WOOD

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A tour of the 8 categories of Muda (waste) from the Toyota Production System, memorized with the [...]

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Illustration of the Gemba Walk: a trail of footprints climbing toward a mountain, symbolizing the climb of continuous improvement.

The Gemba Walk: spotting problems on the ground

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How the Lean-born Gemba Walk helps a Team Lead spot, on the ground, the organizational and [...]

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The problem-solving culture: PDCA and root causes

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Why problem-solving is so rarely standardized: the Lean-born PDCA, the difference between symptom [...]

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