Lean Concepts for Organisations

A Collection of reference articles on the topic of Lean principles and how they can be used to improve workplace culture.

Lean is defined as a set of management practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness by eliminating waste. The core principle of lean is to reduce and eliminate non-value adding activities and waste.  But we take it further.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

The JIT principle explained in normal terms and applied in ways you've probably never seen before.

Do you know the difference between Work In Progress and Work in Process? Stop starting things and start finishing things, manage your WIP.

Improve trust, increase transparency, share knowledge and improve understanding.

Go to the "actual place of work" and engage with people at a different level.

Understand why software estimations are always wrong and how to deal with the inherent uncertainty of most software development projects.