Stop Starting and Start Finishing – Jason Yip

Jason Yip explores the value of reducing work in process and reducing context switching costs to optimize throughput. By designing processes to work on projects serially instead of in parallel we reduce context switching, and other costs, of multitasking.

Related: Multi-Tasking: Why Projects Take so LongThe Importance of Making Problems VisibleOne piece flow (continuous flow)Kanban

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One Response to Stop Starting and Start Finishing – Jason Yip

  1. Great video.

    Love the "stop-the-line" mentality that is really similar to manufacturing…don't continue production until we get this problem figured out first. "Go play X-Box!"

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