There is a reason why Heijunka is a block in the foundation of the Toyota House, or the Lean House as some call it. The short answer is stability in
Lean Manufacturing Guide Easy Reference
For people or organizations just starting on their lean journey, there are concepts, jargon, and worldview that are new and are hard to remember.
20+ Lean Manufacturing iPhone Apps and Six Sigma
Do you eat, drink, breathe, and live lean manufacturing and six sigma? In this day and age, where there are endless resources available to us -
The Lean Startup, Video Interview, Eric Ries, Part 1
The principles of Lean have been applied to many areas outside of manufacturing - from lean for healthcare, lean for service operations, lean in
Lean for Software
This post is a republication of an interview I held with Mary Poppendieck [1. Read More Leadership Interviews], the author of Lean Software
Lean at Virginia Mason Medical Center
The Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle implemented the Toyota Production System in its everyday healthcare operations. This article is
The Stand-Up Meeting, a Lean-to-Agile Lexicon
Agile and its many flavors take many of their tenets from The Toyota Production System. At Toyota, there is a concept of Obeya, or "The Big Room."
Book Review: Implementing Lean Software Development
Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary Poppendieck, the author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for