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- | ====== Notes ====== | + | Simple introduction to lean thinking which has been a starting point for many people done in the " |
+ | The book has a lot of pithy quotes that may be useful in selling ideas to others. For example: | ||
+ | * "That was how we motivated people: by keeping the pressure on. It didn't actually work, because we almost always delivered late anyway, but I hated to think how late we'd deliver if we took the pressure off" | ||
+ | * "The scope of the project always expands until it's too big to fit in the time available to deliver it." | ||
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+ | * "I asked for X, Brian interpreted X differently than what I intended and wrote software that did Y. It is very common. The English language is sometimes open to many interpretations." | ||
+ | And sound advice such as: | ||
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+ | * "When they started cooking in smaller batches they started finding problems far sooner, when it was cheaper and easier to fix them." | ||
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+ | * "A small batch was a small project in which we delivered a small selection of features; not just a small selection, but a small selection of the most important features.Read more at location 2132 • Delete this highlight" | ||
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+ | The one idea that I learned was the idea that by doing the important stuff first you increase the amount of flexibility you have for the going forward plan. The idea borrows from how newspapers work "That was the clever way reporters wrote articles. They put the most important stuff at the top, and then the next most important and then the next. It gave them and their editors huge flexibility" | ||
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+ | As said, this is a simple introduction to lean thinking. I will say that as introductions go, I actually preferred [[this_is_lean_-_resolving_the_efficiency_paradox_-_niklas_modig|" | ||
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+ | ====== Want to Know More? ====== | ||
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