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← Back to all tagsKanban, born at Toyota in the 1950s under the impetus of Taiichi Ohno, was not a visualization tool but a signal: literally a card or label that authorized production.
The Toyota Production System identifies three sources of dysfunction, often referred to by their Japanese names: muda (waste), muri (overburden) and mura (unevenness).
The Japanese term dandotsu refers to a superiority so overwhelming that comparison loses its meaning. Where kaizen advocates continuous improvement through small steps, dandotsu sets a different ambit...
In Toyota factories, a cord runs along every production line[^1]. Any worker can pull it to signal a problem and, if necessary, stop the entire chain. This device, called the andon cord, embodies a co...
In 1982, criminologists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling formulated a simple hypothesis: a broken window left unrepaired signals that no one is watching, inviting further degradation[^1]. What st...
"Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it." This scout principle, transposed to software development by Robert C. Martin, has become one of the most cited precepts in clean code culture. ...
The scientific method rests on a simple principle: an idea has value only if it survives confrontation with reality. Formulate a hypothesis, design an experiment to test it, observe the results, adjus...