Manufacturing floors had a system for this long before we did. Back when I was assigned to the hose assembly plant in Easley, SC — yes, the same plant where that big orange robot arm scared the beejesus out of everyone — they were also in a full-court press to Lean manufacturing, complete with kaizen […]
AI Might Be Better at Simulating Than Answering
One of the more interesting things about a new technology is that we often spend the first few years using it to do old jobs faster. The automobile spent years being described as a horseless carriage. Early television was largely radio with pictures. Even the first personal computers were often treated as expensive typewriters. It […]
Culture Gardeners
OK, I’m still on my metaphor kick– Back in 2016, I wrote a whole piece here on the orchard and the orchardist, and a couple of years ago, I spun up the concept of Agilists as gardeners–especially gardeners of an Agile culture– as a way of introducing myself to the teams in an organization in […]