Lean Manufacturing comes from a car

factory

“valued work as defined by the customers demand ... anything else is waste”

- John Seddon (Rethinking Lean Service)

... plus a raft of techniques, processes, tools, etc to

support the elimination of that waste

Just In Time ProductionValue Stream MappingContinuous Improvement

... and so on

685

“But I don’t make cars!”

But I don’t work with cars...

Lean ServiceLean ConstructionLean AccountingLean Government

My Businessis an _________factory

LeanSoftwareDevelopment

Software Companiesare code factories

WRONG

Software Companiesare DECISION

factories

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

IMAGE (decision flow)

a thought experiment:

EDUCATION

The Education System is a “revelation” factory

HYPOTHESIS

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

Image (education flow)

What do you do to make value?

What are you doing that doesn’t?

Learn to do less of the second thing

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