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We in Huitale have implemented a lean product development process. As a result Huitale has a workflow that is predictable within acceptable variance. We can change the direction of the business at any given time but stay grounded in what we have learned. We can adjust the product roadmap visibility according to our business needs. In addition we have achieved exceptional quality. In past three years we have had two production bugs. The implementation of lean development process requires discipline and experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Useless actions and work in software development projects do not increase the value for the customer. While getting rid of such waste may sound simple, even recognizing the waste is considered a challenging issue. Once recognized with its causes, projects are more aware of the signs of waste: the pitfalls are avoidable by knowing their reasons. On the other hand, self-organization and empowering the teams emerge in a modern Kanban-driven software development project. This makes it relevant to ask whether sacrificing project resources for leadership adds any value. Hence, this paper conducts a quasi-controlled experiment with two leadership settings in order to find out differences between waste, its causes and effects. The results from the empirical analysis show that waste is present in each project but the amount and significance of waste can be reduced with the right leadership even in self-organized teams of Kanban projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ASR Insurance, one of the top 3 insurance companies in the Netherlands is transitioning their IT maintenance and operations from a more traditional approach to Kanban. They started small with 1 team and slowly increased to 7 teams to gain experience. Due to the positive results they are now in the middle of transitioning 200 people to their new environment. This experience report highlights the experiences gained by the first implementing during the initial phase of the Kanban implementation. This report reflects both the practicing perspective and the coaching perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flow-based software development (FSD, a.k.a. lean, pull-based, or kanban) is attractive in certain types of software development projects, e.g. maintenance projects. This experience report shows one project team΄s attempt at moving from a timebox-based development process (scrum) to a flow-based process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since late 2007 the software development teams at Codeweavers UK have been incrementally improving their ability to deliver motor finance and insurance web services. This two-year journey has taken the company from chaos to kanban-style single-piece flow, including Scrum briefly along the way. This paper charts that journey, showing the benefits gained from a simple ˵inspect and adapt″ cycle in which the teams tackled their biggest problem at each stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chapter 8 of the book "Flight Catering" is presented. It discusses how food, beverages and equipment are prepared and assembled on a daily basis before transport and loading onto the aircraft and the trend to allocate tasks to production workers who will have full responsibility for an activity. It states that staff work in an established routine and that emergency procedures are adopted in cases of bad weather or a defective aircraft.

Evidence of the globalization of the world economy is everywhere, from supermarket shelves to clothes tags. Similarly, the dominance of a relatively small number of cities within world affairs is continually scrolled through newcasts, business reports, and popular media. At face value, there is nothing very special in this: it is widely accepted as part of the conventional wisdom about the state of the world today. Closer scrutiny, however, reveals both the globalization of the economy and its associated patterns of urbanization to involve much more than meets the eye in the supermarket or on the television news. Both rest on a complex web of interdependent and quite stealthy processes that are, collectively, of fundamental importance to the political economy of contemporary societies. In this book, the nature of world cities and their relationships with one another and with the world economy are examined within various conceptual frameworks and analysed at several spatial scales. This chapter introduces the major themes of the book, setting them within the context of different perspectives on globalization and on world cities. Perspectives on globalization During the 1970s and 1980s there was an important shift from an international to a more global economy. In the international economy goods and services are traded across national boundaries by individuals and firms from different countries, and the trade is closely regulated by sovereign nation-states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

mobile.international is Europes biggest online automotive market. At mobile.international Product Development is coordinated and orchestrated with Kanban. One major, enabling objective of mobile. international is to release daily. This paper is about the companys way from their successful Kanban implementation to a smoothly running and effective value chain on the technical level. We will discuss how the different levels of technical skills impact Kanban and its results in a positive or negative way and why daily releases supports progress in the right direction on each level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]