Quotes About Process

Once a team is set up, what should it do? What process should it use? How should it be held accountable to performance milestones?

Validated learning is the process of demonstrating empirically that a team has discovered valuable truths about a startup's present and future business prospects.

This is one of the most important discoveries of the lean manufacturing movement: you cannot trade quality for time.

Greg set out to change the QuickBooks development process by using four principles: 1. Smaller teams. Shift from large teams with uniform functional roles to smaller, fully engaged teams whose members take on different roles. 2. Achieve shorter cycle times. 3. Faster customer feedback, testing both whether it crashes customers' computers and the performance of new features/customer experience. 4. Enable and empower teams to make fast and courageous decisions.

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.

lean manufacturing, a process that originated in Japan with the Toyota Production System,

Lean Startup: the application of lean thinking to the process of innovation.

Remember, most mistakes are caused by flawed systems, not bad people. The

Bit by bit, system by system, those small investments added up to a robust product development process that allowed all our employees to work more creatively, with greatly reduced fear.

When I work with product managers and designers in companies that use large batches, I often discover that they have to redo their work five or six times for every release.

El aprendizaje validado es el proceso para demostrar empíricamente que un equipo ha descubierto información valiosa sobre las posibilidades presentes y futuras del negocio.

If our production process is so fragile that you can break it on your very first day of work, shame on us for making it so easy to do so.

That was a good day. In contrast, if I was interrupted with questions, process, or—heaven forbid—meetings, I felt bad. What did I really accomplish that day? Code and product features were tangible to me; I could see them, understand them, and show them off. Learning, by contrast, is frustratingly intangible.

Remember, most mistakes are caused by flawed systems, not bad people.

book Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones recount

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork other times, like a car accident.

The world is experiencing a serious crisis, is undergoing a process of withering, which has its origins in the secularization of the soul and in the ensuing severance of a consequently purely secular soul from its roots in religiousness.

its core a problem-solving process. Research into the nature of problem solving shows it to consist of trial and error, directed by some amount

user-centered innovation process just illustrated is in sharp contrast

much process innovation by manufacturers occurs on the factory floor as they produce

directed by some amount of insight as to the direction in which a solution might lie (Baron 1988). Trial and error has also been found to be prominent in the problem-solving work of product and process development (Marples 1961; Allen 1966; von Hippel and Tyre 1995; Thomke 1998, 2003). Trial-and-error problem solving can be envisioned as a four-phase cycle that is typically repeated many

In this book I explain in detail how the emerging process of user-centric, democratized innovation works. I also explain how innovation by users provides a very necessary complement to and feedstock for manufacturer innovation. The ongoing shift of

costs of manufacturer-provided solutions relative to user-provided ones. For example, a user firm that builds a novel process controller to improve its plant operations must pay its own actual costs if the self-built controller fails and ruins expensive

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.