Small Teams Enable Kaizen and TPS

Posted on 29 Aug 2008 by The Manufacturer

Jon Miller calls on example to demonstrate that if your team can't be fed by two pizzas then it's probably too big. Communication is key.

Earlier this month Pete Abilla wrote about effective team sizes in his newly redesigned Shmula blog. The idea is that generally small teams are more effective because communication is essential to team success and beyond a certain size effective communication in a team cannot be maintained. This would seem like common sense, and it would…

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