Better, Faster, Together – Operae Partners blog
Operae Partners is a team of Lean and agile coaches and trainees. This blog is aimed at sharing our lean and agile REX and expertise
What is Lean for you? Many answers pour in: cost reduction (wrong answer!), customer satisfaction (not false), operational efficiency (certainly) ... What we believe at Operae Partners is that Lean aims to improve employee’s skills. As a result, deadlines and quality will be improved, customer satisfaction achieved, and costs reduced. In Lean, people come first. … Continue reading People come first
In this article by Pierre Jannez, published on InfoQ you'll get a good understanding of why Scrum and the TPS are a great combo for IT teams: Scrum, the Toyota Way and Toyota Production System (TPS) have common foundations regarding values and intentsAgile and TPS can be used together to deliver better resultsVisualization and pulling … Continue reading Scrum and The Toyota Production System, Build Ultra-Powerful Teams
Lean management is an interpretation of the “Toyota System”. Historically, a group of MIT researchers were sent by major American automobile manufacturers (General Motors, Ford, etc.) to conduct a study on the Toyota system. Their goal: understand how this Japanese company managed to sell cars in the United States, and in such great numbers? The … Continue reading Toyota and lean management
