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Applying Toyota Kata to Agile Retrospectives

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Related: Toyota Kata Song – The Times They Are Changing (2011) – Agile Software Development and Deming Management Ideas – Webcast on the Toyota Development Process – Future Directions for Agile Management (2008).

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The Most Popular Posts on The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog in 2016

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2015 Deming Prize Awardees (2015) *. Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Dr. Deming Called for the Elimination of The Annual Performance Appraisal (2012). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). Deming Chain Reaction (2012). Lessons From the Red Bead Experiment with Dr. Deming (2014).

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Applying W. Edwards Deming’s Ideas in Software Development

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Edwards Deming in Today’s IT, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Stop using performance appraisal and rewards and incentives to motivate people, especial when you are using methods like agile and lean software development. Guest post by John Hunter. This video shows Poorani Jeyaseker’s presentation, The Role of W.

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Software Code Reviews from a Deming Perspective

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Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. My guess is in a very well operating software development system (focused on Deming, good software practices…) code review would not be needed to inspect for quality. Like many practices the form it takes can vary quite a bit.

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Comparing Lean Thinking and Dr. Deming’s Management Ideas

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This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Leaders must understand the system… if they go back to that flavor of the month they are going to struggle and they are definitely going to struggle with Deming or the lean concepts.

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4 Skills Great Innovators Share by Greg Satell

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Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership. I highly recommend you read the full post and here is a quick sketch note summary of key skills. Greg supports these skills in his post with excellent examples to make sense of it all. Related Posts at QAspire: The 9 Rules of Innovation by Greg Satell.

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Iterative Customer Focus

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Edwards Deming (1952). I have written about importance of customer focus to Deming’s ideas in several previous blog posts, including: Customer Focus with a Deming Perspective , User Gemba and the most important customer focus is on the end users. Edward Deming. … New Way. Put it on the market.

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