relentless and continuous improvement

Mar

2019

Stay Hungry!

Improve, Learn new things, relentless and continuous improvement, Stay Hungry

I love to learn. I'm always hungry for knowledge. I buy books of similar theme. One day someone asked me: "Why buy books of the same theme? Is one book -- from these same-themed books --- not enough?" I replied: "If I've learned something new --- even from just a one-liner that is unique from one of those same-themed books -- then that book was worth it." That's how hungry I am. And I go further...I teach what I've learned. I have taught a lot of subjects -- Chess, Photography, Civil Engineering, Psychology, Cooking, Agile, Lean, Marketing, Business, Computer Programming,…

Sep

2018

By Clarence Galapon

Drive Relentless Improvement via ‘Inspect and Adapt’

empirical, inspect and adapt, problem solvimg, relentless and continuous improvement

Agile is based on empirical process control -- things are verifiable by observation or experimentation; transparency, Inspection and adaptation are the 3 pillars of empiricism. Application: the famous Plan, Do, Check, Adjust/Adapt (PDCA) is a learning cycle...things are inspected and adaptation follows based on what has been learned and observed. This cycle occurs at every level be it team level, program level, or solution level... hence the mantra 'Inspect and Adapt' for relentless and continuous improvement. At the program Level of SAFe, there is a program event called 'Inspect and Adapt (I&A)'. No surprise there. The purpose of which is…