#flow efficiency

Value streams bureaucracy — three words that shouldn’t belong together, yet too often do. What started as a way to make work flow faster, clearer, and more customer-focused slowly mutates into another layer of process, governance, and control. The result? Instead of improving flow, scaling ends up slowing it down. In From Value Streams to Team Streams: Designing for Flow, I explored how…

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Busy bee paradox – explained

The reason why I am writing this article is an observation of mine around some office environments where working more is considered better than working efficiently. I tried to understand this phenomenon. From Lean perspective it is always flow what matters much , but, why still people insist on resource efficiency ? What are the things from real life making this hard to focus on flow efficiency ?

Cycle time?

In Part 1 we examined Work in Process and Story Escape Rate.  These two metrics are powerful, but are not sufficient to provide a full picture of the flow of value through a process.  We continue with four more metrics to complete the pallet. (more…)