lean manufacturing and thought experiments
DESCRIPTION
My talk from Ignite Melbourne 2010TRANSCRIPT
Lean Manufacturing comes from a car
factory
“valued work as defined by the customers demand ... anything else is waste”
- John Seddon (Rethinking Lean Service)
... plus a raft of techniques, processes, tools, etc to
support the elimination of that waste
Just In Time ProductionValue Stream MappingContinuous Improvement
... and so on
685
“But I don’t make cars!”
But I don’t work with cars...
Lean ServiceLean ConstructionLean AccountingLean Government
My Businessis an _________factory
LeanSoftwareDevelopment
Software Companiesare code factories
WRONG
Software Companiesare DECISION
factories
The right number of decisions,made right,at the right time
IMAGE (decision flow)
a thought experiment:
EDUCATION
The Education System is a “revelation” factory
HYPOTHESIS
Reveal more things, to more students, in better ways, with less resources
Image (education flow)
What do you do to make value?
What are you doing that doesn’t?
Learn to do less of the second thing
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