Lean

Becci is a Lean Consultant that specialises in leading transformations to an organisation’s operational way of working. Her specialty is Lean Kanban for professional services including functional departments like marketing, finance, procurement and administration. She also optimises Project Management Office (PMO) delivery and IT operations. Becci combines Lean practices she has found to be most effective for service delivery such …

I was delighted when Rowan Bunning, the leader of the most popular Scrum Meetup called Sydney Scrum User Group asked me to present at a meetup. I said I would be happy to, but because I normally charge thousands of dollars to host a Playing Lean Workshop (See details here) I wanted people to value my contribution also.  Meetups are …

While the dot com era has come and gone, there was a book that I believe continues to bring some timeless principles of Lean management into product and service development. It is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, first published in 2011. These principles in the Lean Startup can be applied by new businesses that are just starting out, but …

With all the hype about Agile, one could be forgiven for thinking Lean was another flavour of the all-you-can-eat agile buffet. Yet, the Agile manifesto has little to do with Lean which started more than three decades earlier. Get the facts from the author that started it all, Dan Jones of the Lean Enterprise Academy and co-author of the books …

The biggest waste that product development faces today is not building things inefficiently, but building things very efficiently that nobody wants. Eric Ries, Author, The Lean Startup In 2011 Eric Ries released a book called The Lean Startup.  It taught us a more effective way of working using a product/service development process that meets customer needs and maximises a business’ …