Lean Thinking
Bijendra Nayak
Project & Program Management professional with 14 yrs of experience responsible for driving delivery of programs for large scale software enterprises.
There are five key lean principles: Value, Value Stream, Flow, Pull, and Perfection.
The goal is to identify every step that does not create value and then find ways to eliminate those wasteful steps.
1.Value: Innovation
Value is defined by the customer’s needs.
2.Value Stream: Teams & Team of Teams
the next step is mapping the “value stream,” or all the steps and processes involved in taking a specific product from need to delivering the final product to the customer.
The idea is to draw a map of the flow of value through the processes.?
The goal is to identify every step that does not create value and then find ways to eliminate those wasteful steps.
Value-stream mapping is sometimes referred to as process re-engineering.?
The idea is to form cross functional team accountable for discovery -> development -> delivery working on the customer journey map to deliver the required value.
3.Flow: Sustainable development, Built in quality
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After the waste has been removed from the value stream, the next step is to be sure the remaining steps flow smoothly with no interruptions, delays, or bottlenecks.
Make the value-creating steps occur in tight sequence so that the product or service will flow smoothly toward the customer,
This may require breaking down silo thinking and making the effort to become cross-functional across all departments, which can be one of the greatest challenges for lean programs to overcome.?
to enable the efficient flow minimize the waste such as context switching, addition of more work than the available capacity, the focus should be on value delivery, quality of the product and removal of any delays in the path of value delivery.
4.Pull: On Demand Delivery
With improved flow, time to market (or time to customer) can be dramatically improved. This makes it much easier to deliver products as needed, as in “just in time" delivery. This means the customer can “pull” the product from you as needed.
5.Perfection: Continuous Improvement
Accomplishing Steps 1-4 is a great start, but the fifth step is perhaps the most important: making lean thinking and continuous improvement part of your corporate culture.?improving on the engineering practices for continuous discovering, continuous development , continuous testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, continuous delivery, continuous monitoring.
Source:
https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/5-lean-principles-every-should-know