Quotes About Streamlining

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do." —Francine Jay

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The

Going small" is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It's recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It

Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

It's not daily increase but daily decrease—hack away the unessentials!

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.

Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

the cumulative cost of the noncrucial things we clutter our lives with can far outweigh the small benefits each individual piece of clutter promises.

Optimize processes, he urged, not people.

These are the knowledge work equivalents of speeding up the craft method of car manufacturing by giving the workers faster shoes.

organizing the raw materials of your work to minimize energy-dissipating friction

of. By really getting into your work, the nonessential stuff drops away.

Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

Get humans out of the deployment business.

To have humans executing tests that should be automated is a waste of human potential.

We're going way too slowly, with too much wip and too many features in flight. We need to make our releases smaller and shorter and deliver cash back faster, so we can beat the internal hurdle rate.

Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system. To do that, you need to know what matters to the achievement of the business objectives, whether it's projects, operations, strategy, compliance with laws and regulations, security, or whatever.

work in process' or 'inventory

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The best direction is the least possible direction.