Lean Enterprise: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologi, (Paperback)

The Lean and Agile frameworks have been misapplied for two decades. Most teams that "do Agile" are running Waterfall with stand-ups.

Lean Enterprise - The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Metho explains what they're actually for. Single-volume guide written to be read straight through. Concrete, applicable, and built for the reader who wants results faster than theory.

Inside:

- The principles, in their original form, before consultants softened them.
- The practices that produce the results everyone wants from these methods.
- When Lean is the wrong answer. Honest cases where waterfall is faster.
- How to introduce these frameworks to teams that have heard the buzzwords too many times.
- The cultural and organizational patterns that determine success or theater.
- Real-world examples - both wins and the kind of failures that get hidden in case studies.

Read this if you're tired of doing the rituals without the results.