I had an opportunity to attend a one-day lean manager’s workshop (by Mary and Tom Poppendieck) organized by my employer at my workplace.
It was so much different than the other similar workshops I attended in the past:
- The whole talk was so cohesive – Mary and Tom constantly focused on a few core principles approaching from various perspectives. They arrived at the very same conclusions by using examples and data from various Industries/Verticals in a very lucid style.
- Another thing that resonated with me was the application of Scientific principles from Queuing theory, Fluid dynamics and emphasis on using actual measurements as data to improve. Also, they used some examples/directives from the Military/Army manual (on communication) and applied them to Lean/Agile Software development.
I will be blogging more about what I learnt and how I plan to apply them at work.
