Four- Standardizing the Process The key processes must be identified and work should be reduced in terms of variation, errors, and...

Two-Mapping the Value Stream The flow of the work and information must be identified to determine how it creates value. Measures to...

Principal One (1) Lean thinking is another way to improve processes. Lean thinking helps organizations to become continually efficient by...

I will end this discussion with the benefits of Theory of Constraints (TOC) 1. It increases the ability of the organization to accomplish...

Wastage of manpower is a matter of concern. Agile uses collaboration teams so manpower becomes less of a concern. Agile IT generalists...

So with Lean, with any movement in terms of people or machinery that adds zero value to the product is wastage in terms of motion. The...

Once the constraint is identified, the very next step is to take measures to improve upon it. The result or results of the constraint is...

Standardization is important as it helps to eliminate waste out of the product development process. If the processes and the design...

Learning and measuring for improvements should be a part of all the processes in any organization. The performance goals that need to be...

The "Customer First Approach" How many times do we start a project with this foremost in our minds, then as the project progresses we...

Lean Management and the use of it in the IT field. I am going to focus on the “Lean Enterprise” aspect of Lean as well as pros and cons...

In Six Sigma one of the key components is that you must have a well defined and robust (I believe) system that will be required to play...

On the projects, I have been associated with the one issue that as a team we always forget is that the customer is ALWAYS right. Now I...

In an organization seeking consistency in their processes; Six Sigma plays a very important role in the promotion and establishment of...