Seek value, not quantity

For my Quality Management course at the university, the professor used a restaurant’s business model to explain the concept of value stream mapping. According to him, value for the customer would come from reduction in the overall cycle time - From the time the order is placed to the time the customer gets the [...]

Crossing the Chasm

I often hear people complain that Agile is not yet mainstream and hence, not been adopted widely.Ignore the obvious circular reference for the moment. Lets compare Agile practices adoption with a similar revolutionary principles applied to the manufacturing discipline - Toyota Production Systems.
The Agile Manifesto came out in 2001. Assuming that the practitioners were using [...]