The Lean IT Field Guide: A Roadmap for Your Transformation
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (893 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B016MD4LQC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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How many IT books have you read that are long on theory and short on practical application? They are interesting, but not very impactful. Addressing this urgent need for the IT community, The Lean IT Field Guide explains how to initiate, execute, and sustain a lean IT transformation.Illuminating a clear path to lean IT, the authors integrate more than two decades of combined experience to provide you with a proven method for creating and sustaining a true lean IT workplace. They provide a framework from which to think and understand, but lack a process from which to act. This field guide not only highlights the organizational techniques of more agile and lean processes, but also the leadership work required to help management adopt these new approaches.Based on proven methods from different industries, including banking, manufacturing, insurance, food and beverage, and logistics, the book details a clear model that covers all the components you need to achieve and sustain a favorable work environment and culture in support of lean IT.Filled with anecdotes and case studies from actual businesses, the book includes pictures, templates, and examples that illustrate the application of the lean methods discussed.
His personable approach and people-first philosophy have inspired leaders and empowered workforces to successfully apply conscious awareness, lean, and enterprise excellence practices in many complex work environments.He is the coauthor of the award-winning book, Lean ITEnabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation (CRC Press, 2011), and recipient of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. He has gathered a unique blen
"An IT organizations' field (tested) guide to advance from adequate to awesome, move from meh to marvelous and more" according to Martin G. Erb. This book illuminates a path for you and your IT team to travel as you transformation from adequate to awesome, and then to improve continually.If you do not yet know how a totally awesome IT team thinks and works, you can read some of the books that Amazon has probably kindly displayed . "Actionable" according to @CoreQuality. I've been fortunate enough to visit Nationwide Insurance and see their Lean Leadership System from the book in action. Tom & Mike did an excellent job with this book by aligning principles with tangible daily behaviors. Not an easy feat!. Amazon Customer said Great work!. Most people struggle with how to take lean principles and apply them in a practical world. As the name implies this book clearly helps you in the practical world. Great work!
There's simply no better work available to anyone looking to kick-start a sustainable lean IT transformation. It provides the necessary toolsand no moreillustrated with vivid, relevant examples, and ties them together into a coherent whole with the bare minimum of theory and exposition. "The Lean IT Field Guide answers the fundamental questions posed by so many who read the books, attend the conferences and are inspired by others to transform their own team: Where do we begin? How do we get started? What should our first steps be? Authored by two experienced Sherpas, Tom Paider and Mike Orzen, the book will ensure you will never be alone on your path to truly great results."Rich Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller, Menlo Innovations; Author of Joy, Inc. - How We Built a Workplace People Love"The Lean IT Field Guide is a practical, principles-based, guide to enterprise transformation. Ev