4/ because it is more likely that, whichever part of the process produced the error, it happened pretty recently. Easier to remember & shift
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... and then, once you get it right, you scale up batch sizes to get greater efficiency. Like manufacturing.
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the Japanese actually believe inventory is "evil", which is why they ruthlessly minimize work-in-process & finished goods inv.
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I discussed kanban in a review of resilience strategies; rand.org/pubs/research_ - there are resilience issues with naive kanban.
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agreed, Kanban requires very stable environment and demand forecast. Ever heard of Theory of Constraints, by Goldratt?
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this is the topic of my next ribbonfarm post. Started as mfg improv. method, later abstracted as universal root cause analysis
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yup, it was just a week. Short and intense. But learned so much. TOC is a remarkable set of ideas
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