Comments on: Lean Principle #1 – Eliminate Waste

By: tedzzz

tedzzz — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:29:59 +0000

By: tedzzz

tedzzz — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:29:10 +0000

Part 2 is great. Part 1 is a waste.
While that is harsh, I use it to explore one point. When someone goes and points out waste in a software company or team, you quickly start hitting individuals. The meetings, docs, processes, code, etc are some one’s baby.

Just as a majority of people see me attacking your integrity when I call your article waste, the same carries through to software companies when waste is pointed out.

I wager 90% of a software company’s product & assets are the people or are direct tied to the people at the hip. The question then is how to you attack the waste, without attacking the individuals? I think people especially engineers often lack tact. It is thus important to educate one on how identify waste without calling it wastes when dealing with the owners of said waste… yes? This is not an easy task.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:06:11 +0000

1st time i've done Scrum on a project your 10 principles were my Baseline.

I feel know that I will start using Lean following your 7 principles.

Thanks for this excellent post !

Bruno.