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What are the key factors necessary to properly realize Continuous Improvement?
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- Adapt the project process by periodically reviewing and integrating team practices, organizational culture and delivery goals
- Conduct frequent retrospectives and improvement experiments in order to continually enhance the effectiveness of the team, project and organization
- Seek feedback on the product incremental delivery and frequent demonstrations
- Create and environment of continued learning by providing opportunities for people to develop their skills in order to develop a more productive team of generalizing specialists
- Challenge existing process elements by performing a value stream analysis and removing waste
- Create systemic improvements by disseminating knowledge and practices across projects and organizational boundaries in order to avoid re-occurrence of identified problems and improve the effectiveness of the organization as a whole
2
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What is value stream analysis?
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The value stream is the entire collection of activities necessary to produce and deliver a product or service. Value stream analysis separates those activities that contribute to value creation from activities that create waste, and identifies opportunities for improvement.
3
Q
What is the Deming cycle?
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Plan-Do-Chen-Act (PDCA)
4
Q
What are some of the characteristics of Kaizen?
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- japanese for “change for the better”
- it is continuous
- focuses on processes
- Unknown results
- the whole company can participate
5
Q
What does Process Analysis entail?
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- Breakdown of the process flow
- Identify inputs, tools and techniques, outputs
- Understand how the process works
- Identify opportunities for improvement
6
Q
What is Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)?
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- identify and address all failures starting with largest
- failure modes (What could happen)
- failure causes (Why would it happen)
- failure effects (Consequences)
- value stream analysis -> maximizing the amount of work not done
7
Q
What are some key areas a team should run self assessment periodically
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- Thinking
- Collaborating
- Releasing
- Planning
- Developing
