路宁(luning)的博客

书的全名是《丰田现场管理方式 - 丰田巨额利润的秘密》，日文翻译的，1978年出版，整整30年了。阅读过程中确实能感受到那个年代的“朴素”，而现代介绍精益生产的书则充满了“提炼与升华”。

该本介绍了丰田生产方式的方方面面，浅显易懂，而且介绍了很多工厂的具体实践，会把你带入生产第一线。照例，下面我把书中一些有意思的地方摘录下来。

• 商业活动中，购入物品被加上差价，形成销售价，...，企业收益并非来自于对消费者有意义的增值活动，而是把负担转嫁到消费者身上。这是一种反社会的现象。...

Burn down chart and story wall are often used in agile project for visualizing the status and progress of project. They should be designed to visualize smell easily as well.

Smell is sometime made less visible unintentionally. We probably did things as below:

• Enlarge the wall for more cards.
  The wall then became more 'smell tolerant'. Problems are hard to identify.
   
• Categorize bugs so that we can manage more.
  Feeling of bugs being well organized weakens the strength of the will to fix them soon. The count of half done stories may increase with the bugs.

 
So, in order to resist the tendency, we can try:

• End-to-end evaluating, keep goal in mind.
   
• Make it brittle for even small problems. Here 'it' fits for process, story wall and more.
   
• Keep it simple, less is more.