Posts filed under: Re-Read Saturday

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 20: Chapter 21 Patterns to Get Started and Epilogue

Today we tackle the whole of Part 7 which is Chapter 21 and the Epilogue.  Next week we will complete our re-read of Tame Your Work Flow with concluding remarks. ... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 19: Chapter 20—Operational Governance in PEST Environments

A few logistical comments before we dive into chapter 20.  After this week we have three weeks left in this re-read including our customary debrief. When we decided on Tame... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 18: Chapter 18—Full-Kitting as Ongoing Executive Activity

Cue the eerie sound effects from low budget science fiction movies that signal time travel. After publishing our re-read of Chapter 19 last week, Steve Tendon sent me a message,... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 17: Chapter 19—Execution Management in PEST Environments

This week we tackle Chapter 19 of Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s  Tame your Work Flow.  Chapter 19 combines many of the moving parts from the previous chapters into a... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 14: Chapter 15—Outcomes, Values, and Efforts in PEST Environments

Chapter 15 of Tame your Work Flow, introduces the concept of a MOVE, which stands for Minimal Outcome-Value Effort. Steve and Daniel use the construct to help define an atomic... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 13: Chapter 14 – Flow Efficiency, DBR, and TameFlow Kanban Boards

I find Chapter 14 useful in a book of useful chapters. In this chapter, Steve and Daniel explain the foreshadowed idea of full-kitting and introduce two different versions of kanban... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 12: Chapter 13—Portfolio Prioritization and Selection in PEST Environments

Those that control work entry, control the health of a team, and at a product level, the health of the organization. Messrs. Tendon and Doiron discuss portfolio and work entry... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 7: Chapter 6 – Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture

This week we tackle Chapter 6 of Tame your Work Flow,  Throughput accounting ties a number of threads together for me. The big one is the linkage between getting value... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 6: Chapter 5 – Where to Focus Improvement Efforts

This week we begin Part 2 of  Daniel Doiron and Steve Tendon’s Tame your Work Flow. Part 2 transitions us from improving wait time and flow efficiency and begins a... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 5: Chapter 4 – Utility of Flawed Mental Models

This week we tackle Chapter 4 of Tame your Work Flow,  The chapter is titled “Utility of Flawed Mental Models.” The goal of the chapter is to make sure we... Read More