Comments on: The Toyota Way: Book Review

By: MCP UK

MCP UK — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:33:00 +0000

Hey Mark,
Thanks for the book review!
TPS is a great concept on the fact that works on the principle that any activity which does not add value to the product (or service) that goes to the end customer is wasteful and should be eliminated. And that's well related how well we add value to the customer you know the quality of value.
Do you have any thoughts applying lean principles to service industries, telecoms, financial institutions?
Cheers,

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:06:27 +0000

Hi Mark,

I appreciate your thoughtful review and plan on grabbing a copy for myself. I've been following Agile and Lean principles for a while now and have learned that sometimes tools can add value (especially when trying to scale agile practices such as CI). If you get a chance, you may like to read up on multistage continuous integration and a product called Accurev. Accurev allows developers to experiment without affecting others and continue working even when there is a broken build without the hassles that occur due to mainline development in some tools I've used. If you need to create a branch of development (not quite the same thing in the Accurev tool), you just do it, yourself, instantly, no need for the admin to get involved. If you mess up, delete it. No harm, no foul.

Great review and thank you for the insight.

Mike