Standing on the shoulders of Giants

Taiichi Ohno: Toyota Production System (TPS), Lean Production, Just-in-time (JIT) & the Toyota Product Development System (TPDS) Eliyahu M. Goldratt: Theory of Constraints (ToC), Critical Chain & bottleneck theory: Goldratt has shown, that all processes that have “dependent events” and “statistical fluctuations” in their flow, will always have a bottleneck. He showed us how to…

Overlapping Principle

The overlap principle ensures that information is effectively exchanged between the team, groups and Clusters. This is illustrated here using the example of the Product Owner: Every Team has a Team-Product-Owner, who represents his/her Team within the Team-Product-Owner-Gruppe (TPOG) of the Cluster. Each TPOG has a Cluster-Product-Owner, who represents his/her Cluster within the Cluster-Product-Owner-Group (CPOG) of…