Published in "Liquid Planner" website, October 3, 2016 Lean manufacturing has become a popular way to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve efficiencies. This philosophy originated, largely, at Toyota and is used to better align customer needs with manufacturing operations. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, August 16, 2016 Click here for original article. In project management circles, we hear a lot about agile. Agile is an iterative, incremental method of managing the design and build activities of engineering, systems, etc. Recently, I ran across a firm that didn't use [...]
Published in "Liquid Planners" website, August 25, 2016 Click here for original article. Supply chains continue to increase in complexity. I've observed this firsthand from managing hundreds of projects in manufacturing organizations over the last 25 years, including navigating end-to-end supply chain. Being able to effectively manage this complexity [...]
Agile project management is more than adapting quickly, to succeed find a common sense approach. Published in "Project Times" website, May 19, 2015 Click here for original article. There is a buzz about agile project management being the "in" trend. There are workshops, seminars and lots of conversation about [...]
