My talk from Ignite Melbourne 2010

1. Lean Manufacturing
comes from a car
factory

2. “valued work as defined by
the customers demand ...
anything else is waste”
- John Seddon (Rethinking Lean Service)

3. ... plus a raft of techniques,
processes, tools, etc to
support the elimination of
that waste

4. Just In Time Production
Value Stream Mapping
Continuous Improvement
... and so on

5. 685

6. “But I don’t make cars!”
But I don’t work with cars...

7. Lean Service
Lean Construction
Lean Accounting
Lean Government

8. My Business
is an _________
factory

9. Lean
Software
Development

10. Software Companies
are code factories

11. WRONG

12. Software Companies
are DECISION
factories

13. The right number of
decisions,
made right,
at the right time

14. IMAGE (decision flow)

15. a thought experiment:
EDUCATION

16. HYPOTHESIS
The Education System is a
“revelation” factory

17. Reveal more things, to
more students, in better
ways, with less resources

18. Image (education flow)

19. What do you do to
make value?
What are you doing
that doesn’t?

20. Learn to do less of
the second thing
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