- The Traditional Gemba Walk Has Low Value in Software Engineering I was at the dare13 conference last week where we were talking during a lean coffee session about the Gemba Walk and its value in software engineering. The Gemba Walk is a Lean practice where executives regularly visit the factory floor with a Lean teacher, sensei, or coach, and learn about the [flow][11] by observation, and look for improvement opportunities (reducing waste).
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- The Problems of the Capacity Utilization I found a very interesting quote that I wrote in one of my notebooks a long time ago.
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- Waste in Software Development In my community, we love to say the word waste - from lean - out loud. There isn't a meeting without mentioning it at least once, and when it is mentioned, the phrase we have to eliminate waste follows. This is something that is very easy to say.
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- Convince Your Manager to Try out the Product Ask your boss or manager to try out the product you are working on. If she has already been doing it, you can stop reading now, and please go and tell her that I like what she is doing and she should keep it up. If the situation is the other way around then there is something important you have to do: convince her to try out and use the product you are working on.
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