Agile Lessons from the NUMMI Team Member Handbook
The factory GM and Toyota reopened together shows what a healthy operating culture actually asks of people. What the andon cord teaches about safety, stopping the line, and blameless improvement.
How Scrum Teams Can Seek Out and Destroy Organizational Impediments and Unplanned Work
Track the unplanned work and the impediments as their own signal, and the system starts telling you where it breaks. The early instinct that later became control charts on two streams.
Mary Poppendieck’s “The Tyranny of ‘The Plan'”
A long, close reading of Poppendieck's talk on how plans quietly become the thing we serve instead of the thing we're building. Cost of delay, queues, and the economics underneath the manifesto.