Introduction:
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.
The delivery process In Toyota
The continuous improvement approach used by Toyota is know as PDCA (either plan-do-check-act or plan-do-check-adjust). Here’s a more detailed explanation of “plan”:
- Define the problem or objective
- Establish targets
- Understand the physics (use 5 whys to figure out what is really going on).
- Brainstorm alternatives
- Analyze and rank alternatives
- Evaluate impact on all areas (this is a “what could go wrong?” step)
- Create a visual, detailed, double-ended schedule 犀利士
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The role of employees
In the Toyota world, everybody works on continuous improvement, and there is an expectation that every employee should be able to provide an answer around what the current issues are in their group and how that employee is helping make things better.
That is something that is really missing in the software world, and I’m curious about what sort of improvements you would see if everybody knew it was their job to make things better on an ongoing basis.
The role of management
One of the interesting questions about agile transitions is how the role of management evolves, and there are a lot of different approaches taken. We see everything from “business as usual” to people managers with lots of reports (say, 20-50) to approaches that don’t have management in the traditional sense.
I’m a big believer in collaborative self-organizing approaches, and the best that I’m usually hoping for is what I’d label was “benign neglect”. Since that is rare, I hadn’t spent much time thinking about what optimal management might be.
I think I may now have a partial answer to this. Toyota lives and breathes continuous improvement, and one of the most important skills in management is the ability to teach their system at that level. They have employees whose only role is to help groups with continuous improvement. I think the agile analog is roughly, “what would it be like if your management was made up of skilled
Agile Team Coaching who mostly focused on helping you be better?”
Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericgu/2016/01/04/lean-toyota-and-how-it-relates-to-agile/