Quotes About Cycle time

What should we change in our product development process? Eliminate waste? Increase quality? Raise efficiency? Shorten cycle time? The key to answering this question is to step back to a more basic question: Why do we want to change the product development process? The answer: to increase profits.

Although the primary changes that are required in an adaptive organization are in the mind-set of its employees, changing the culture is not sufficient. As we saw in Chapter 9, lean management requires treating work as a system and then dealing with the batch size and cycle time of the whole process. Thus, to achieve lasting change, the QuickBooks team had to invest in tools and platform changes that would enable the new, faster way of working.