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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).
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...
Pull requests emerged in a very particular context: that of open source on the Internet, where strangers propose modifications to projects maintained by other strangers.
Trunk-Based Development (TBD) takes the logic of continuous flow to its conclusion: all developers commit directly to a single branch (trunk or main), multiple times per day, without long-lived featur...