Lean and What do we do next? - Part 2
January 25th, 2007Author: Jim Trott
These Lean-Agile principles all seem reasonable, but abstract. What do we do to put it into practice? This is part 2 of a discussion on this.
This page contains some great videos that demonstrate many Lean principles.
Go to http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/vision/production_system/video.html
Click on Just-In-Time
You can actually watch these very short (15-30 second) clips in any counter-clockwise order, but I find it makes most sense if you start at the "Kanban Removal On Assembly Line" on the right and then go counter-clockwise from there (takes less than 5 minutes).
Many companies are being challenged by whether or not to colocate teams, and how far to go: in the same room, same floor in the same building, same geographical location. The argument is that there is success with distributed teams, in Agile, so is it really worth the extra effort to move people? This is a published industry report on the benefits of colocation and what teams could take from this to be successful if working remotely.
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