Visual Factory

Personal Kanban Kaizen – It’s all Digital 0
- A Lean Journey, Sharing Best Practices, Visual Factory
- March 14, 2011
In two earlier posts I wrote about the benefits of a personal kanban and showed my first kanban system. One of the weaknesses of this board was the lack of portability of the system with the amount time I spend out of the office. So I have created digital personal kanban system. LeanKit Kanban allows you to create a
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Visual Management Board 0
- Guest Post, Visual Factory
- January 11, 2011
On A Lean Journey, I have talked about Visual Factory or visual management a number of times. My friend Allison Myers and I have talked online about a visual managment board she uses at Lantech. Allison is a Marketing Product Manager at Lantech where they have been using Lean Thinking for decades. She was nice
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Get More Done by Doing Less 0
- Lean in Practice, Lean Resources, Visual Factory
- September 9, 2010
Most of us get paralysed when faced with a large and complicated undertaking. Jason Yip gives some tips on how to get it done from Ignite Sydney this past August. Jason is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks focused on Agile and Lean Software Development. Stop Starting and Start Finishing Some keypoints from the video: 1. The
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Personal Kanban Kaizen 0
- Lean Office, Sharing Best Practices, Visual Factory
- August 30, 2010
A couple of months ago I talked about a kanban for personal management. This concept had two desirable elements: 1) Visualizing your work 2) Limiting your work. In my previous visual task board I found prioritization meaningless. Tasks are either important or not. If it is important then put it on the list. If not
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Effective Information Visualization 0
- Visual Factory
- August 3, 2010
With today’s technology we are swimming in data. But this data can be useless if we are not able to react to it. Information needs to be displayed in an easy to interpret manner. In a previous post I talked about the visualization techniques of Matthias Shapiro in terms of current events. Now he walks us through the visualization
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The Scrap Market: A Place for Defects 0
- Quality, Sharing Best Practices, Visual Factory
- June 16, 2010
Quality problems usually appear in the form of loss (defective items and their cost). It is extremely important to clarify the distribution pattern of the loss. Most of the loss will be due to a very small number of causes. Thus, if the causes of these vital few defects are identified, we can eliminate almost
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