I'm a Lean Six Sigma Conference Speaker. Yes, my face is on the front cover of the brochure. But, little does the audience know that that picture (I'm
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I remember a very humbling experience of thinking that I knew how to solve problems and being shown just the opposite by an hourly associate. That
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Visual Identity Using Icons: The Floppy Disk Save Button
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Lean for Software Development: Is it a Silver Bullet?
We interviewed Mary Poppendieck in which she answers my reader's questions. Today, she answers a question about Agile being a Sivler Bullet. Here
Lean for Software Transformation: Top Down or Bottom Up
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Mary Poppendieck Seven Wastes Explanation
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Ask Mary Poppendieck Anything!
In August 2006, Mary Poppendieck was nice enough to entertain questions from my readers on the topic of Lean for Software. Some great questions were