Posts by Jim Benson

Why I’m Excited About Lean Camp

Why I’m Excited About Lean Camp

JUST LET ME LEARN! Hallway conversations are almost always what people peg as their favorite parts of conferences. Yet conferences rarely provide ample space and time for people to have these conversations. When we actually converse with our peers or with the speakers, we learn more and, more importantly, we retain more. We are actively engaged in the learning, rather than just being spoken...

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Process Lies

Process Lies

Our processes are never exact, change and continuous improvement are key to success.

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Heroes Are Just Alright With Me

Heroes Are Just Alright With Me

  It’s three o-clock in the morning and you’re awakened by the unwelcome beep of a text message. You don’t even have to look at your phone to know what it’s about. Good news always sleeps ‘till noon, as the saying goes, and so you surmise (quite rightly) that somewhere – somehow – something’s gone wrong with the servers and the site is down. Your business...

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Spechetti

Spechetti

When coders have crazy unreadable code its referred to as “spaghetti code.” Single strands of code are impossible to trace through the tangled masses coders can weave. When this happens, it becomes incredibly difficult to understand the original intent of the code, the order in which changes were made, and how to go about making things better. This creates something known as “technical...

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Personal Kanban Book

Personal Kanban Book

The Book Personal Kanban brings lean principles to daily life for individuals and small teams.

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