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Category Archives: Carnival
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #157
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles for the Curious Cat Management Articles site; you can subscribe via RSS for new article additions. Maximize Test Coverage Efficiency And Minimize the Number of Tests Needed by John Hunter – “The steeper the slope the more efficient your test plan is. If you repeat the same tests of pairs and triples and… while not … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged Carnival, John Hunter, management
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #156
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996 (Deming, evidence based management, lean manufacturing, agile software development, systems thinking…) The Key Questions for a Minimum Viable Product Project by Anthony Panozzo – “What are you trying to learn with this particular MVP? What data are you collecting about your experiment? What determines the success … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged agile management, management, project management, Software Development
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #155
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect select management improvement articles and blog posts in the Curious Cat management article library. The annual management blog roundup event covered #151 – #154, so this is #155. We Don’t Know quote by David York, via Mike Wroblewski- We don’t know what the problems are…..that’s why we make them visible. We don’t know what the root causes of … Continue reading
2011 Management Blog Roundup Completed
The 2011 Management Blog Roundup has been completed. I hope you enjoyed it and learned from the great posts highlighted by all the participants in this effort. The final group of posts to be added are: Mark Hamel at Gemba Tales added his 2nd and 3rd reviews of: A Lean Journey and Steven Spear. Hank Anderson, at Stats Made Easy, offered up some great posts by Jurgen Appelo at the oddly named NOOP.NL, but nevertheless excellent, blog on managing software … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival
Tagged management
2011 Management Blog Roundup: Stats Made Easy
The 4th Annual Management blog roundup is coming to a close soon. This is my 3rd and final review post looking back at 2001, the previous two posts looked at: Gemba Panta Rei and the Lean Six Sigma Blog. I have special affinity for the use of statistics to understand and improve. I imaging it is both genetic and psychological. My father was a statistician and I have found memories of applying statistical thinking to understand a result or system. … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Data, Six sigma, Statistics
Tagged Data, evidence based management, Six sigma, Statistics
More 2011 Management Blog Roundup Posts Added
As we start 2012, the 4th Annual Management Blog Roundup continues. Once again some of the most popular management bloggers are taking a look back at the last year in the management blogging world. The following reviews have been added since my last update: Jamie Flinchbaugh, on his blog of the same name, took a look at 3 blogs, including this one, Curious Cat Management Improvement, as well as: Old Lean Dude and Brad Power’s posts at the Harvard Business … Continue reading
2011 Management Blog Roundup: Lean Six Sigma Blog
For my contribution to the 4th annual management blog roundup I am taking a look at 3 management blogs. In this post I look back at the year that was at the Lean Six Sigma blog. We are lucky to have so many great management blogs to read all year. They provide inspiration and great advice to managers. Though, one of my frustrations is how few good six sigma resources there are online. In this area we are unlucky. The … Continue reading
2011 Management Blog Roundup: Gemba Panta Rei
For my contribution to the 4th annual management blog roundup I will take a look at 3 management blogs. In this post I look back at the year that was at the Gemba Panta Rei blog. We are lucky to have so many great management blogs to read all year that provide inspiration and great advice. This year 12 management bloggers contributed to highlight nearly 40 blogs, be sure to check out all the posts. Jon Miller is the of … Continue reading
Newly Added 2011 Management Blog Roundup Posts
The 4th Annual Management Blog Roundup is making good progress. It is wonderful how many great blogs there are to chose from. Even with us covering 40 management blogs there are many more great management blogs we didn’t include. The following reviews have been added since our initial post: Matt Wrye, at Beyond Lean, posted the last of his reviews covering Lean Reflections (which will be hosting their own reviews later). Dan Markovitz, at TimeBack Management, posted on Daily Kaizen, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival
Tagged management
4th Annual Management Blog Roundup
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. This is the 4th year that the normal rhythm is being broken to review the past year in management blogging. From now until January 12th some excellent management blogs will be hosting reviews of what has transpired on great management blogs over the last year. You can find links to all the reviews, as they are posted, on the home page for Management Blogs: 2011 … Continue reading
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #150
Mark Graban is hosting Management Improvement Blog Carnival #150 on the Lean Blog, highlights include: Watching Waste in the ER! – As part of his relatively new blog, Anthony Scott (Frontline Lean) writes about his experiences with waste in an emergency department. The waste isn’t surprising to those who have been a patient or those who have worked in the E.D. Scott is a supervisor in a lean manufacturing setting and he applies lean thinking to this unfamiliar environment. Case … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Health care, Lean thinking, management
Management Improvement Carnival #149
Jon Miller hosts Management Improvement Carnival #149 looking at blog posts examining motivation, highlights include: a wonderful cat photo Kevin Meyer found some bright spots on his trip to India and documented them in several fun articles in Evolving Excellence. My favorite was leadership lessons from Ganesha, a set of mindsets and behaviors that are both motivating personally and constructive in motivating others. On productivity and motivation, one article began by explaining how researchers found that doing or saying something … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #148
Jamie Flinchbaugh hosts Management Improvement Carnival #148, highlights include: Since I’m just back from the 1st Lean for HR Summit, I thought I would also showcase an HR-oriented blog. This one from Emily Douglas challenges HR to step up to the plate in The HR Puzzle. Old Lean Dude, aka Bruce Hamilton, aka “Toast Guy”, writes in Illogical Progression on how hoshin gets used as an organization progresses on their lean journey. Michael Baudin writes about the use of sports … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival
Tagged Carnival, management
Management Improvement Carnival #147
Jason Yip hosts the 147th edition of the Management Improvement Carnival on his blog: You’d think with all my video game experience that I’d be more prepared for this. Highlights include: Being Responsive is Critical for Successful Customer Development by Ben Yoskovitz — “Customers can be quite forgiving. But what they won’t tolerate is being ignored.” Failure is Essential to Knowledge Work by Keith Swenson — “Viability will depend upon learning to cultivate a culture that not only accepts failure, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged management
Management Improvement Carnival #146
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles through Curious Cat Management Articles, you can subscribe via RSS for new article additions. PDCA by Lee Fried – “By approaching all work through the Plan, Do, Check and Adjust (PDCA) cycle is incredibly powerful and transferable. It allows everyone to think and talk about their work in a consistent way and it creates a … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #145
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996 (Deming, evidence based management, lean manufacturing, agile software development, systems thinking…). Why Startup Hubs Work by Paul Graham – “The problem is not that most towns kill startups. It’s that death is the default for startups, and most towns don’t save them… Both components of the … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged Carnival, entrepreneur, management