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Limitations of the industrial manufacturing paradigm, including Lean and ToC.

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2019-11-13 22:44

Be careful how we apply industrial manufacturing paradigms, including Lean and Theory of Constraints(ToC), to IT. Linear stream flow models only work in IT (or, I suspect, manufacturing), at a close scale. Zoom out and they fail us, its not linear any more, not even to an approximation.

Self-organising traffic

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2019-07-26 01:27

Here is a crossover between my IT Skeptic "life" and my Teal Unicorn life. We made a video about Vietnamese traffic, and how it is a great example of how one would like work to flow, to self-organise. Enjoy.

Optimising control constraints

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2017-04-11 00:59

Here are some notes I wrote for a client on how to optimise the constraints created by controls on the Require to Deploy to Run value stream.

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