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6 mistakes lean practitioners make

The most common cause of ineffectiveness in lean projects comes from the inability or unwillingness to learn from past experiments. Zach Nies outlines six common mistakes of lean practitioners and how you can avoid them.

February 11, 2015

Knowledge

7 agile development trends

I’ve had the privilege of watching the trend of software development practices change over time addressing ever-evolving technologies and business realities, writes Joel Semeniuk. Here are his 7 predictions for agile.

April 18, 2013

Methodologies

Review: Leading and managing the lean management process—Gene Fliedner

“Lean must be viewed as a framework of comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team and practices and tools.” Prabesh Aryal reviews Gene Fliedner’s book on lean management.

May 14, 2012

Methodologies

10 myths about Lean projects

Lean and Agile processes are becoming more popular as project management begins to take on board concepts such as reducing rework, reducing waste and focusing on quality.

February 6, 2012

Quality

Convention slated for collaborative project management

The Alliancing Association of Australasia (AAA) and the Lean Construction Institute have combined forces to present a convention that will address the future of relationship contracting in infrastructure throughout Australasia.

September 14, 2011

News

Improving value through lean construction

Imagine transforming unreliable and unaccountable supply and production chain participants into value adding team members.

June 7, 2011

Blogs

Lean business experts in New Zealand conference

Experts from some of the world’s most successful companies will converge in New Zealand for the Asia-Pacific Lean Business and Accounting Summit, to be held in Auckland over 12-13 April 2011. The summit will focus on the lean business model and the competitive advantages it offers to organisations, headed by leading experts in the field […]

February 22, 2011

News