Comments on: WIP It http://oldleandude.com/2012/07/30/wip-it-3/ A Blog About Understanding TPS and Gaining Its Full Benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy" Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:57:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gary Peterson http://oldleandude.com/2012/07/30/wip-it-3/#comment-800 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:17:11 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=899#comment-800 Great artice, Bruce! And I LOVED the “WIP It” video.

You are always a good read, focused on important things.

]]> By: Tom Warda http://oldleandude.com/2012/07/30/wip-it-3/#comment-799 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:42:51 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=899#comment-799 Bruce,

Great points on WIP and great video. (But don’t quit your day job just yet.) Like you, I now look on the mountains of WIP in most processes with great shame. In fact it was only about 15 years ago that I used to look on the same mountains with great pride. Now I understand how much cash they consume and how many problems they hide.

A while back, I worked for a really great Lean manager who always used to introduce himself like this: “Hi, my name’s Dave. I spent the first 15 years of my career making the biggest batches I knew how. I’ve spent the last 20 years undoing all the damage I did.” I think he pretty well nails it for a number of us there.

Tom

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