Tag: flow efficiency
Visualize Information Flow in Value Stream Mapping When I met Mary and Tom Poppendieck we not only talked about flow efficiency but about the entity that actually flows through the system. According to Mary it can only be a deriverable.
more...Flow Efficiency Based Improvements Aren't Always Useful Yesterday, I met Mary and Tom Poppendieck and over a nice beer we were talking about various topics but we spent most of our time talking about flow efficiency (ratio of the value added activities to waiting). When I was riding my bicycle home I was still thinking about our conversation and presented examples.
more...Flow Efficiency Last year in the Lean Kanban University conference series I was talking about flow efficiency and how we measured and used it with one of my old teams. My friend Chris McDermott asked me to write a post about it, so here it comes. Like other metrics such as cycle time, takt time, and throughput, flow efficiency comes from car manufacturing.
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