J. D. Meier emailed me this week to ask my opinion on ?Lean? and referred me to [ THIS POST ] For almost 30 years (yes, I wrote my first program for money in the 70?s as a teenager) I?ve been a ?practical? geek. I don?t invest much in methodologies, or teh business / development fad of the era. I?ve seen dozen of Silver Bullets come, and go. Only to be replaced by the newest ?holy grail? of software development, Here is a quote from the blog post ?? A central concept in Lean is that planning, executing, and delivering work in small batches minimizes waste. The ideal limit of working in small batches is the single unit. Creating one piece at a time with zero waste is the ideal of one-piece flow . Though I haven?t seen the process articulated...(read more) ...
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